A Poem A Day #415: Always the Starman

“Always the Starman” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s book ‘Playing God’ which was published in 2018 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

‘The Wolf In Us’ – OUT NOW!

My new book ‘The Wolf In Us‘ is Out Now and available to purchase online from Amazon! ‘The Wolf In Us‘ is the sequel to ‘The Wolf In Me‘, ‘The Wolf In You‘, and ‘Vega – The Vampire King‘, and is the final chapter in the story of the Olivia Hunter, Vega, and The Wolf. ‘The Wolf In Us‘ is a book about revelations and about secrets coming to light, but also about life, loss, and what it means when you find out something about yourself or about something you believed you knew is not as as you always thought it was. ‘The Wolf In Us‘ sees Olivia Hunter reflect on who she is, what she is, where she has been, what she has done, and where her journey takes her next can only be read to be believed – but by the end you know the definitive answer to the question: What is The Wolf In Us? 🐺
In this episode I talk about my new novel ‘The Wolf In Us’ – the sequel to my novels ‘The Wolf In Me’, ‘The Wolf In You’, and VEGA – The Vampire King. I talk about the writing process of my “The Wolf and The Vampire King” book series, from conception to conclusion, and how I accidentally created my own fictional world in which my stories take place.

A Poem A Day #414: The Wolf of Winter

“The Wolf of Winter” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s novella ‘The Wolf in Me’ which was published in 2017 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

A Poem A Day #413: The Angel’s Wings

“The Angel’s Wings” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry/short-story collection ‘Too Close To The Sun’ which was published in 2016 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

A Poem A Day #412: Inter-dimensional

“Inter-dimensional” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry/short-story collection ‘Too Close To The Sun’ which was published in 2016 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

A Poem A Day #411: The Matador

“The Matador” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry/short-story collection ‘Too Close To The Sun’ which was published in 2016 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

A Poem A Day #410: The Confidence of Man

“The Confidence of Man” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry/short-story collection ‘Too Close To The Sun’ which was published in 2016 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

A Poem A Day #409: Psychic Arithmetic

“Psychic Arithmetic” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry/short-story collection ‘Too Close To The Sun’ which was published in 2016 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

A Poem A Day #408: Mourning in Paris

“Mourning in Paris” by Mark Hastings was taken from Mark’s poetry/short-story collection ‘Too Close To The Sun’ which was published in 2016 by Zeloo Media. Check out more of Mark’s poetry online @ http://MarkThePoet.Me – all poems © Mark Hastings ● Buy Me a coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkThePoet ● Check out the merch store on Redbubble: https://rdbl.co/3xWa4Rw

My Poem “Variety”

I love to listen. I love to observe.
I love to imagine. I love to converse.
I love to watch people doing things
that they are invested in,
and I love to watch people do things
that they might not even know
what exactly they are doing.

I love stories, I love characters -
and life is full of an infinite number
of tales that, unless you were a witness to them,
you could not and would not believe
that were in fact real.
I love music for many reasons -
but mostly because music is like gravity:
it is ever-present throughout our lives,
it influences us, it grounds us,
it is a force of nature that stars of all kinds,
sizes, and colours create and sing
without even knowing it,
and because it existed before us
and it will live on after us in varying forms,
rhyming and never repeating.

I love that there is more than one
season of nature where I live -
because it stops every day from feeling
like a copy of the day before,
like it must feel to people
who live in a country where the weather,
the temperature, the sights,
the sounds, are all the same -
because what I love and what I embrace
the most about the world that I live in
is that there is always
so many sources of variety.