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Brent Jared Dearham
My name is Brent Jared Dearham.
I was born in a little town in South Africa. At age eleven my family made the decision to leave South Africa and move to New Zealand. Auckland is wh...view moreMy name is Brent Jared Dearham.
I was born in a little town in South Africa. At age eleven my family made the decision to leave South Africa and move to New Zealand. Auckland is where I grew up around friends and family. Always active, I played First 15 rugby and swam at the National Championships several times. Being dyslexic made academic work a bit more challenging, but I have a good family who supported and encouraged me through my High School years. At about age 15, when we started studying Shakespeare and poetry at school, I found I had a passion for and enjoyed writing poetry. At first my poetry was based on movies I had seen. Later I started to mix in experiences and emotions I had felt. Coming from a religious family I have also written about spiritual topics and Christmas. My poetry was written at first just for myself as a challenge but as I started to do more personal writing I began to be more selective with my words and would often use words that could mean several things or hide thoughts under the main story.
As I became older I found I had many experiences to write about, like travel to different countries, sporting endeavors such as swimming, rugby, rock climbing and cheerleading, adrenalin- based activities such as bungy jumping and sky diving and academic pursuits such as gaining several university qualifications.
Poetry is just a hobby and I continue to write when I have the time to do so, but I became concerned that the collection of poems would get lost after losing one I wrote for my grandmother in her passing (Rewritten as “Ship Of Life”). At this time I decided to publish my work to have a copy of it forever in time. This book contains about half of the poems I’ve written and I will continue to put them onto the computer until I can publish my next book.view less