Aticus Abbey has conducted ssveral interviews with Starsrite poets and poetesses, and this way introduced them to our community, allowing us to learn more about the people we share the same passion for writing with. This was a valuable contribution to bond us to the Starsrite family. But who is the interviewer who came up with all these interesting questions? Now it is time for Atticus to answer for himself. A thousand thanks, my friend, for allowing me to interview you!
Question 1: You are writing a large number of poems. Would you describe yourself as driven or even possessed?
Answer 1: The real deal. Not at all. Ever since I started writing, I have saved and stored my writings.
Question 2: Where do you find inspiration?
Answer 2: Mostly from reading novels and watching peoples, getting to know their personalities.
Question 3: Is there any book you can read over and over again? If there is one, what makes it this special to you?
Answer 3: John Adams by David McCullough. A biography and his relationship with his wife. A solid read.
Question 4: Reading your poems is like taking a walk through a blooming garden. Full of colors, images and dark mysteries. Sometimes, reading your writings feels like being on a psychedelic trip. Have you ever used drugs to stimulate creativity?
Answer 4: No. I’m not that weak.
Question 5: How would you describe yourself in three words?
Answer 5:The real deal.
Question 6: Using a quote by Rainer Maria Rilke, I want to pass on his question to you: Do you think you would have to die if you were denied to write?
Answer 6: No. I write because I enjoy it and don’t attach my wagon to any specific causes.?
Question 7: Do you only believe in things that are to explain rationally or are you also open to spiritual phenomena like energy healing, healing crystals or signs and symbols?
Answer 7: I reality, I believe in God and family, spirits are connected to a higher plane as if God’s assistants. Ghosts are BS to frighten children.
Question 8: When a child shows extraordinary talent in writing, do you think this may be because of fortunate circumstances, or would you accept the explanation that this is memory of past lives?
Answer 8: I think writing takes practice and avoiding the pitfalls of worrying how it may be accepted.
Question 9: What personality type are you – the lone wolf, the family man or the guy in the shared apartment?
Answer 9: I am a family man with a sarcastic sense of humor…a loner with a circle of friends, detesting narcistic fools and liars.
Question 10: Dare to share your deepest fear with us?
Answer 10: I fear no writer. I fear for the ones who don’t accept Jesus. I am no angel, but I draw the line when dealing with certain people. Alcoholics, because they use rotgut as a crutch. Drug addicts, because they are weak.
Thank you, Elke. It’s not often that I speak of my privacy and I couldn’t care less how some perceive me. I am what I am, hitched to a higher being.
It was an honor. Your writings reveal a subtle person with a great sense of humor and mastership of metaphors and imagery. In this interview you add your integrity and principled side. Again, thank you very much!
I have two books by David McCullough I’m reading now so I’m glad to see he said that. I’ve been a musician for over fifty years and started when I was very young. If I couldn’t write (which for the most part I can’t anyway lol) I’d be hitting a drum or playing guitar.
You did a good interview here, Elke. Nice job.
Thank you very much for reading and commenting, Tim! Your musical career sounds very interesting, especially because my own experience in music is pretty poor, besides torturing the violin for some years. Watch out! Maybe you’re the next one i’ll torment with questions…
It’s interesting to get a glimpse of the authors behind their words. And, perhaps we find a few things in common that we didn’t predict prior, like their personal beliefs, even.
After all, we are not generic souls hashing out the same results. Diversity is strength, even when the tastes are not always agreeable.
Good job, Sappho!
Thank you so much, dear Styx, i agree to you absolutely. It’s always enriching to get to know other people and their opinions and beliefs. Open mindedness and tolerance are values we can cultivate by experience.
Amazing interview, Elke. Adagio is a great writer it was interesting to learn more about him. Appreciate you both.
Damian
Thousands of thanks for your kind words, dear Damian! You are my role model with your spotlight!
I like that he was being interviewed instead of the other way around. Good job
Thanks a lot for reading and commenting, Fia!
Hoi hoi chère S., and chèr A.,
This is the 4th time I came back to the scene of the Rhyme, to be submerged in this ocean of beauty.
I’m no hero with alcohol, so I Raise my glass of chilled freshly squeezed orange juice.
Cheers to the interviewer; cheers to the interviewee!
This one is a solid proof of what Roger McGough said:
Keep it simple
Let’s not take ourselves too seriously
And (this one I love the best):
All this talent is fine, but bring your empathy
Alive and gigging – as far as I know he still performs – 88 years old.
This interview floored me with a deeply felt (or feld) human touch questioning. As well as simple but bulls eye answers.
Raise the flag and sound the trumpet.
I wave extra warmly to Sappho and to Atticus