About The Cavern of Echoes Thank you for visiting The Cavern of Echoes. I hope you enjoy reading my poems, and that somewhere along your journey there will be something - a word, a phrase, a thought, an image - that strikes a chord. The poems were all written a few years ago, but all are very personal, very intense, very expressive. When I write, it is usually to get something off my chest, to cleanse myself of something that has been troubling me and preying on my mind. Sometimes I have written several poems in a week, other times I can go for whole months and years without writing anything. The main determinant of whether I write or not is always my mood - so in this sense, I view my poetry as as way of turning negative feelings into a positive outcome. I think if you read the poems you may well notice the common themes that tie many of them together, as well as some more distinctive messages. Many of them were written in the summer of 1998, a time of great change, upheaval and awakening in my life. Perhaps it is telling that in the much more settled, confident period since then I have hardly written anything at all... Inevitably, I have my own personal favourites among this collection, and my own interpretations of what they mean. For me, 'Keep the Knife' is a very sad poem, but with a determined, positive ending - saying that however much someone has caused you pain in the past, you will find a way to rise above it and discover happiness. 'One Man and Another' is about peoples' readiness to judge things they know nothing about - that there are some feelings so intense and so personal, no-one else can ever understand them. Another favourite, 'Plunge' is about the blurring of reality and fiction. Sometimes, you want something to happen so much you begin to believe in your dreams, and hurt those who you perceive as standing in the way of your personal 'reality'. Finally, 'Revelation' is about the inevitability of truth, and the pointlessness of deceit. The people around us are often much more perceptive than we imagine - and for each thing we choose to keep from them, we just end up revealing a different part of ourselves instead. Epilogue/Re-reflection is a new poem, written in September 2002, which closes the door on The Cavern of Echoes... while perhaps opening the door to something new. I hope that as you explore The Cavern you will find your own favourites, and draw your ownm readings from my words. Enjoy your journey... remember that just like life, The Cavern of Echoes never ends, but it is always changing. Graham Soult 8 October 2006

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