04/11/2025
This post scares me. A lot. It is the first time that I have read one of my poems on social media, or in fact shared in public in any form, except of course my actual books. But my books are different, as those poems are about dogs, and this one is personal. I have in my bio that I’m an occasional poet, and this is my first step to sharing some of my poems (unless it goes terribly and I go back to keeping them all to myself 😬).
So here it is. My first publicly spoken poem. I was inspired to share it when attending , the fabulous conference for self-published authors organised by the truely fabulous Laura Feldman from . The theme of the conference was “What is your why?”, and I think this poem (written months before the conference) sums it up pretty well for me.
Who knows - maybe some of my fellow authors can relate?
(And for reference, I have both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Animal Science, which will make sense when you listen to my poem 😊)
