Somehow and from somewhere, the words arrived in the poet's head, jostling around looking for space to be understood; to be shared.Multiple descriptions from the influence of people, places, ordinary and extraordinary events bounce around and snag themselves into the grey matter.They free themselves again and then noisily charge around in the cerebral spaces causing electrical impulses to guide the pen or in these more modern times a keyboard to express themselves upon the page.The poet's thoughts then explode from the vision inscribed upon the folio and into the eyes of the reader causing further synapses to generate imagination and wonder.The critics thoughts then repeat the experience causing further imaginations and pictures and so on.Mild Musings May Mitigate My Mentality is not a self help book or designed to save your life.It is a view of the world based on the poet's observations through life and more recently.It is about finding humour in serious situations and seriousness in humour through the medium of poetry.
About the Author: Joseph Campling lives in Buckinghamshire, and is married with adult children. He trained as a both a General and Mental Health Nurse in the South East of the United Kingdom in the mid 1980's and has worked in various roles over the past 30 years. He jointly authored an article in 2006 about the need to share positive research based practice amongst care teams locally which was published in a professional journal. His interests include live music both watching bands and going to open mic nights. He is still trying to play the guitar which has been project in progress for a couple of years and quizzing. He likes to watch TV; mostly factual documentaries, comedy and quiz shows. He also 'hangs out' with members of the local drama club although he has no plans to act. Having written sporadically over the years (usually for friends and family) he has been writing consistently over the past two years and has begun to recite his poetry at various Open Mic nights and Spoken Word events. He recently he has collaborated with a composer by writing some lyrics which have been put to music He also follows London Irish rugby and can sometimes be found cheering his team on whether they win or lose (sadly the latter more recently).