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Verse
"
Literature is a state of culture, poetry a state of grace,
before and after culture"
- Juan
Ramon Jimenez
The
Child Within - by Nadine Garrod
Nadine
Garrod set up a new independent school near Bishop's
Stortford in 1987 with a commitment to emotional
development above all else. She retired in 2003 and set
up parenting classes - "one of the most
rewarding things that I did in my career".
Her fascination with this led her to work on other
ideas for materials used in the Primary School
"As
for my poetry, I am just someone who jots down thoughts
and expresses them in the way of poetry. I do not claim
to be a poet of any merit, just happy to be me!"
Nadine
has since taken up drawing and painting, and attends
weekly classes at the Morley College in London for clay
sculpture.
The
editors wish to make it clear that they are not literary
critics and do not presume to judge the literary merit
of any of the contributions
received for this section. They simply
publish verse that they like and that they consider to
have merit within the context of Nurturing Potential.
Martial
said: "He does not write at all whose poems no man
reads." And to Wilson Mizner is attributed
"Poets are born, not paid".
Our
contributors would be delighted to receive feedback on
their verse, whether praising or damning, because all
feedback is positive and the evidence that the work has
been read will be payment enough. Comments by
e-mail please to poetry@nurturingpotential.net.
Better yet, send us some poetry of your own.
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