Equations

Intrigued by limericks, and encouraged by a school teacher who enjoyed poetry, I was ten years old when I started constructing rhyming verse. This fascination became neglected as I ventured into higher education and developed an aptitude for mathematics and sciences.

Although I occasionally wrote poetry, mostly of little importance, my first significant writing evolved from an emotional release, caused by the grief which overwhelmed the British nation when a village school in South Wales was engulfed by coal slurry. Originally titled,no-one came home from school, I later renamed it, a black Welsh day. From that day forth, I found solace in expressing my emotions in poetic verse, some of which is shared in this, algebraic, named book, ‘Equations.’