James Garratt – A life lived and recorded in ink since 1992
My name is James and this personal website is an attempt to archive my writing which predominately is (under a loose banner) poetry
I started writing things down at the age of 17 in 1992, initially with no other idea of plan then to keep a record of my thoughts and feelings. Given my growing up experiences it felt like the perfect way to apply some self help therapy
a victim
of a tabloid style childhood
with a teenage
kiss and tell;
a flummoxed child,
lost in a musical
wishing well.
Drink up the clouds,
you,
just drink them up —
because this is the shape
of the world to come;
maybe,
this year;
look out,
it is me clinging —
to the world’s longest pleasure pier.
it’s no secret
that the limelight
shines bright,
and that humans —
can feel compelled to watch
Power,
the dopamine hit —
the light of any intelligence
sadly, barely lit.
I had felt loved
in a way
that felt buried
into my solid earth,
as if foundations
were in concrete turf
I am a smile,
a joke,
I am the words
that with youthful heart —
I once wrote.
But,
I do not know
what to say.
Sally is sad,
and I know
we are a long way
from former days
I sat there,
drinking,
a can of Coca Cola;
knowing that we were together
I am out walking
across,
and up steep, steep hills;
then,
downhill,
on a freshly greased sledge,
The Boy Behind The Glasses. Poetry and Writing 