From Business to Stories: A Writer’s Journey
The Words That Shaped Me: A Story Poem
What’s the thing you should know about Denzil’s writings
Words flow from my fingertips,
Stories dance across the page.
A writer’s soul, unleashed,
On a boundless journey, to engage.
From family tales to youthful blunders,
My Dubal life, laid bare.
The joy of writing, a late discovery,
A passion now, beyond compare.
Two hundred seventy-one stories strong,
My legacy is a gift to share.
So let the stories flow,
And my writer’s heart takes flight in the air.
Who is Denzil’s biggest writing influence?
My daughter’s touch, a guiding light,
She shaped my words, my writer’s might.
From business prose to stories bold,
Her edits wise, my tales unfold.
With gentle hand and keen insight,
She nurtured my creative flight.
Through short stories and snippets small,
I found my voice, I answered her call.
My writing journey, still in bloom,
But grateful for her guiding plume.
My daughter dear, my editor true,
Your love of words, I owe it to you.
What planted the first seeds of storytelling within Denzil?
I loved to read since I was a child
On buses, in parks, or anywhere wild
I wrote essays in school in two languages
I helped to make the school’s newsletter
Everything I read became a story in my head
As a teen, I wrote journals that I hid under my bed
I left for Dubai when I was young and bold
I hope my parents never read what I told
What was the first story Denzil wrote? And what was the outcome?
I wrote my memoirs from birth to teen
A factual record, but dry and lean
My daughter read it and marked it red
It broke my heart to see my work shred
But that was the push I needed to grow
As a storyteller, not a writer, I had to know
It helped me to leave the business tongue
And embrace the creative words that sung
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