User talk:Paul Rees Poet

Hi ,

I have written several books including A Small Red Valley, Black Country Black Gold and I Was Always free.

I am particularly interested in researching social history and depicting historical events via  literature, poetry, prose, and art. Poetry is an art form that is capable of bringing to life social history if written in context with empirical data. It is a way of telling a story. Poetry can be objective or  subjective according to how it is presented. Poetry often expresses a sense of injustice or emotion that is felt by the author or by the subject the poet is writing about. Shakespeare wrote many of his works in verse that evoked a plethora of emotions, thus arousing the spirit whilst recording a segment of history that is talked about today and will be discussed furhermore in the future.

Here is an Example of Paul Rees's poetry: An Abstract from his Book 'I Was Always free' The author reads the poem rhythmically and with a sense of passion, reverence, endearment and irony, and as he quitely  emphasises the words 'I was Always free'  intellectually undermining the  so called captors who supported  apartheid. "Freedom is in the mind of the beholder" ref: Paul Rees poet 2011.

Poem: I Was Always Free

I Was always free, Robben Island, South africa and me, apartheid was always a partition that shackled each spirit, black and white live apart, yet God gave them one heart and soul: I remember, I was told, not asked, continue the fight against aprtheid and grow old in the darkness, and be left out in the cold, but, I was always free, freedom, equality, one spirit one heart; God gave me hope, no colour chart, no one should be apart, a part of being apart; I was always free in my mind, as I watched the birds hover high, over azure skies, my thoughts were with my family, my friends, and foe: I learned that forgiveness triumphs over adversity, and although evil sometimes takes longer to overcome; twenty years and some, of incarceration, a drop in the ocean, against a history of oppression; I was always free, it was my captors who needed to be freed from prejudice and fear, and a sceptical world that needed their consciences pricked to oppose tyrrany: I was always free, knowing my message would get through; I felt no anger against my captor's, indeed, I felt sorrow for their lost souls, and through freedom of thought as my message came through, love thy neighbour, disarm his soul, though fighting opporession should be everyone's goal; I was always free, there was nothing to break, my soul intact, I shared conversations and would interact, debating my views, and shook the shackles from my captor's wrists;   I Was Always Free,.....Yes, I Was Always Free!

Paul Rees Poet

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