J Matthew Waters

Forty-Five Revolutions per Minute J Matthew Waters

Poetry and blogging go hand in hand. Just browse WordPress (WP) or Blogger or Tumblr and you'll see what I mean. Since I started my WP poetry blog back in late 2011, I've posted over 700 poems, resulting in material for two previously released collections of poetry. 'Forty-Five Revolutions per Minute' is my third and latest collection released since then. When it comes to new ideas they mostly come from within. Although I enjoy participating in 'word or photograph of the day' games online, I rarely utilize this vehicle for poems I post on my blog. Instead, I tend to formulate ideas from reading other poems, listening to music, or absorbing daily happenings from around the globe. Many ideas come to me while taking long rides on my bicycle or driving in my car. Since I listen to music during both of these activities, occasionally a word or phrase gets stuck in my head. With a little luck and some perserverence a new poem is born. That is what this collection of poetry is about. The poems that follow were somehow or other inspired or named after a song that I've heard along the way. If you are familiar bands such as The Beatles, Bob Seger, Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jonny Lang, The Eagles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, The Wallflowers (to name a few) then you have an idea where I'm coming from. Seldom do the poem and the song have anything in common other than the title or reference thereto. I just simply "borrowed" the title because for one reason or another I felt it was apropos. I hope you come to enjoy them as much I have enjoyed putting them together.