Poetry Links - July 2005
Bern's Fairy-Tales and Poems
About Bernard Shaw.
Mr. Shaw (pictured left) was born in Dartford. Kent, England in 1930.
His father was an unemployed ex-soldier, who had served his country as a volunteer during World War One. His mother was an ordinary housewife ill with tuberculosis. She died when he was three.
He and five other siblings were placed in an orphanage in Chatham, Kent. Aunts and Uncles on this father's side took in his three sisters and older brother. Mr. Shaw and his younger brother were left to the not so tender mercies of the orphanage.
Aunts and Uncles on his father's side took in his three sisters and older brother. When he turned eighteen, he became a part of the British Army. After two years as a National Serviceman, he left the army and found employment in hospitals. His career history included: porter, a ward orderly, a mortuary attendant and stoker. He had the option of going to work at the bank but didn't like the idea of being "caged in". Being a stoker was hard work, but he was his own boss and that was important to him. When he was twenty five, he met and married his wife. They have been together over forty years.
He began to have a life with a great many opportunities. He traveled with his wife, an Austrian girl, throughout Europe and got to know the continent well. He took on the job as a driving instructor, and became the manager of the school. He resides in Austria and currently manages a spare auto parts store.
He really enjoys writing poetry - particularly Fairy poetry. Check out his site for fairy poems.