My name is Maria Ellen Armstrong and I was born on 9th September 1983 in Dublin, Ireland. I moved to London when I was seven with my mum, Noeleen and my Big sister, Michelle. I currently work for a media training company in Battersea and I have spent most of my life stimulating new ideas for poems and stories and writing them in little notebooks. Many ideas I have carried for over ten years have stuck with me like a sore thumb. Although most of my work is traumatic and projects sadness and loneliness, I have always enjoyed a healthy social life indulging in my love of Drama and Football. My main influences have been Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan amongst others. Iv spent a lot of my life reading War poems by great writers such as Wilfred Owen and Rosenberg. I now live in a two bedroom flat with my mother in South East London. I have also got a collection of War poems that I wrote last year when the world mourned over the loss of hundreds of Men and Women dying or grieving over lost loved ones. That made me realise that there must have been worse times and greater suffering many years ago.
I don’t think we realize that we are not given choices in life, just a path, with no routes. We have to make our own route, and Iv made mine with poetry.
At 20 years of age, I have many years of writing poetry and getting ‘stimulated’. I hope I still carry my ideas and imagination throughout my life.
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