ALAN BEDWORTH
Author Feature - January 2022
Hello, my name is Alan Bedworth, I'm 65 years old and retired. I live in Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England, where I have lived all my life. I attended Castleford Grammar School from 1967 to 1971 where I left school at 15, with no qualifications, yet started work straightaway. My job was as a junior salesman for Burtons the tailors in Pontefract, which is about 3 miles from home. I stayed there from 1971 to 1977 then I took my redundancy.
1977 was a year that changed my life completely. I went into engineering at R.H.P. Bearing Company. Not only was it a different industry, but it was where I met my future wife. My social life also changed. After watching Rugby League all my life, I decided to play the game. I did manage to get a trial at Wakefield Trinity but I wasn't good enough. Redundancy ended my time at RH.P. in 2,000 after 23 years. I then did a stint in Warehousing for 9 years, before again being put out of work. Upon I found some more Warehouse work until ill-health forced me to leave. I'm now retired and disabled.
About 3 years ago I decided I wanted to learn to sing. I found a local singing tutor by the name of Georgina Hill-Brown. This lady gave me so much confidence that not only did I gain my first ever diploma for singing, it's for Musical Theatre grade 2 which I passed with Distinction. While having singing lessons, I was encouraged to try writing whether it be songs or poems. I recorded my own song mainly through a challenge to write a funny song. Which I did with the title A Funny song, again thanks to Georgina for recording in her studio, and thanks to her partner Simon Wilby for providing the music. You can find the video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHb8XbJibtE
I've since stopped singing due to the covid situation, but I've continued to write and in July managed to publish my first book. Reach out to purchase
https://www.facebook.com/alan.bedworth
FEATURED BOOK
FEATURED POEMS
I FEEL YOUR PAIN.
I heard you sobbing,
when you thought no-one was there.
I know the pain and sorrow,
you're going through again.
Hold on to your faith in mankind.
There's good to be found all around.
I understand your hearts breaking,
but believe me you're not alone.
I'm trying to send you happiness
in looking for love in the right place.
Destiny and fate are awaiting you,
wanting you in love and all that amounts.
Now my love I've got to go,
I wish I could hold you so.
Yet being in Heaven and watching you
is the best that I can do.
__________
YESTERDAYS ARE REAL
They generally say yesterday has gone,
look forward to today and the future.
But surely things of yesterday
shape your future.
That's where all your memories are.
Forgetting yesterday can't work
how do we learn from our mistakes.
Perhaps those not wanting yesterdays
have ulterior motives for not
advocating past memories.
I'm sorry I am who I am
due to my yesterdays.
Understanding memories of family
and friends have developed
the person you see in front of you.
In my conclusion memories
and yesterdays have a place
in our society.
How to love and forgive was
learnt in all our yesterdays.
__________
AN ENGLISH ROSE
So many words
have been written,
about the face of a
pure English Rose.
Yet when you meet
this special girl,
all those words
lose their meaning.
Oh yes it's true
the skin is so soft
to the touch, it's the
colour that's so alluring.
When you hold her face
in your hands, it feels
like pure china.
So fragile to your touch.
Even as she gets older,
that bloom seems to
last forever, her cheekbones
accentuates that fragility.
So when you read any words
of an English Rose, they pale
into insignificance, until you
hold and see this fragility.