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Alexandre is a musician, poet, and philosopher with a deep interest in the mystical, magickal, and occult. While he has been playing music ever since he was 3 years old, his interest in mysticism and poetry came about from the study of philosophy. Beginning in college with the standard western philosophers such as Plato, Kant, Descartes, and Nietzsche, he realized that there was still much more in the realm of wisdom to be explored. Reading about Zen, Taoism, and Cabala instilled an appreciation of simple, poetic verse as a way of communicating wisdom, and led him to the study of the magickal system of Aleister Crowley, known as Thelema, from where he draws much of his inspiration.
My name is Kamu, but names only stay important in the physical world. I am a writer, a poet, a photographer, and an artist. I am a person in this world, that just wants to contribute to all the creative energy in this world. Hoping that my poems will inspire and positively affect people, to let them wander into the deeper side of their life, to pull out the words from their thoughts, and creatively place them into reality. In my journey through life, I am constantly being awakened into someone else's imagination, and I share my thoughts and reflect upon theirs, being inspired to write from ideas that we have all put out together, sharing the images and emotions that come from our complex human minds. To me, questions are the most important thing of all. The art of questioning all and having theories and trying to fill out the unknown seems to be one of my greatest fascinations. I love thinking about things that stay a mystery in this world. It is what inspires me to write. Writing is a way for me to express in a way that is unavailable in any other form of art, or on a greater scale, life. I hope you enjoy what I am trying to express, and I hope to be inspired by your creativity as well. Thank you.
I was born in Edinburgh in 1948 and lived there until I was 24. My parents' rented " house" was a downstairs flat in a tenement which was built around 1690 and is now a Grade 2 listed building. When I lived there, it was a Grade 10 unlisted slum. My father was a grocer by trade and my mother cleaned richer people's houses for a living. They were loving and caring parents and I had a happy childhood. I married in 1968 and my wife, my son and myself moved to Huntingdon four years later, so I have spent two-thirds of my life in England. My second son was born in 1974. I qualified as an accountant in 1976 and spent over twenty years counting beans in various guises. In 1993, bored rigid by the work, I left the profession to set up a framing and picture gallery in a village near Huntingdon which I sold on as a going-concern ten years later, retiring in 2003. Since then I have been enjoying life, but doing very little that could be considered creative. When I turned 70 last year, for better or worse, I took to writing poetry.
I'm no good at biographies but I'll try my best :) <--- 1st fault, don't start a biography intro like this haha. I live in Australia, Queensland, my house is beautiful and my overseas girlfriend Denise is stunning. I enjoy life but find myself often contradicting, stressing, feeling anxious, sad and all that blah, I do however find a way to convince myself I'm sane haha :P My extraordinarily adorable lamb Denise AKA Bubba Goofe :P keeps me company along with my lil' gingerino cat Smurf, who relieves me from freaking out about the dark :P My family has always been social sometimes it's tiring a frustrating and dysfunctional but we're all lovely social butterfly's, probably the reason I like partying and BBQ, plus I'm a nautical garbage bin. I prefer to be alone because I have adapted to being alone for a majority of my life, I'm an only child, but I dislike being so far away from my princess. Being lonely for so long has allowed me to build character and a strong flow from the chaotic right lobe. I enjoy fine, bold and detailed art, I dislike industrial and overly dramatic art (although I'm dramatic myself I would not like to live with myself haha that would be it irritating :P I also enjoy gaming both board games and electronic, I am an avid player of Minecraft, I hate pop music and enjoy folk, hip hop, alternative, 70's rock, Reggae, psychedelic garage, indie rock, Jack Johnson, Queen, The Beatles, Blink 182, Bright Eyes Chance The Rapper, Kendrick Lamar, Darwin Deez, The Jungle Giants, All Day and lot's of indie rock bands, Tribal seeds, Bob Marley (I'm no hipster) Music is important. I like fantasy books, cartoons, Starwars, The Muppets, Adventure Time (oh but everyone like adventure time, Bing Bang Theory, Destroying Noobs :) I also take an interet in meta physics, philosophy and caring for people. My poems are like me spontaneous, created from a small phrase, idea, song, atmosphere, emotion, so I'm more of an observant poet or a sponge :) But I only want to spark exactly what made me create poems, setting a mental scene or state of mind or cluster of thoughts :)
