LIVERPOOL POETS 2008
Anthony Davies
I was 6 years old when I was told that I had FA and would be in a wheelchair by my early teens. I stayed in my mainstream primary school none-the-less.
My next move had already been planned for me, and I had the choice of going to Woodchurch High School or Meadowside. Woodchurch accepted disabled students but as I walked with the aid of a Zimmer Frame, Woodchurch said that I would be better suited in a smaller school like Meadowside. So I ended up studying at Meadowside. Physically Meadowside was by far better suited for me but academically speaking it did not even do GCSEs, which I only personally found out a year later. I was integrated with Woodchurch and Carlett Park College, but I was unable to take the GCSEs. So, after leaving Meadowside, I did some of the exams I should of done in school in Birkenhead Sixth Form College as well as AS levels and GNVQs, which added 2 extra years to my time at college. I then went on to university and after 3 years of studying Combined Science at Lancaster University I am now a Bachelor of Science (BSc) graduate since 2005.
I continued studying via the Open University, before finding a temporary IT work with Birkenhead Sixth Form College in early 2006 and then volunteering in a Day Centre’s IT class in 2006 to early 2007 and am currently a disability consultant.
I have been writing since I was 10 and have only been venturing in poetry since 20. I hope the viewers of this website enjoy my poems and will look out for my book, Memoirs of a Life, as well as some in anthologies published by United Press. I feel that I express honesty and hope in my poetry.
A Simple Plea
I find myself without another,
As others keep to their own,
As if talking is too much bother,
And the world is theirs alone.
I feel alone
And am in daunting space,
My secluded throne
Is where I sit when I’m in this place.
My mind is set free
And it travels far away,
I travel till I find where I want to be.
Were nothing is sinister, come what may.
But why must I condone
To being alone.
Why am I on my own
If I do not wish to be alone.
What do I want?
Recognition in a world that does not accept me,
That is what I want,
That is my simple plea.
By Anthony Thomas Davies 1/02/04 ©
Clarity
An image of the world’s perfections
Moulded into humanity.
I cannot explain how you stir my emotions,
Nor can I describe your beauty.
Your eyes are clear and yet filled with honesty,
Eyes of clarity,
Eyes of innocence and purity,
Eyes to compliment your beauty.
Not just embodied beauty,
But so much more.
I write this with all sincerity
But you encompass splendour not shared with me before.
Your mind,
The essence of serenity,
One of a kind,
And the beauty of clarity.
By Anthony Thomas Davies 19/10/04 ©
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