Answer Then Question
By Ian Ebbitt
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A collection of poetry comprised of both fictional and non-fictional inspirations. Ian takes a traditional style in Haikus and puts a modern taste to them. Some of Ian’s poems are based on his life events and accounts but others are not at all, especially the more melancholy ones. Ian tends to take an actor’s approach to many of his poems, as in he gets most of his inspiration from observing people and then imagines a situation or scenario and puts himself in as the character of that story. He delves into these fictional situations so much so that as the reader you cannot believe that the events are not his own.
Ian has yet to find a subject matter that he will not write and pour himself into. This book demonstrates just that with the wide range of topics he covers. Unlike some writers and poets that stick to particular themes of interest, Ian mixes them up with his favorite being everything.
Ian Ebbitt
Ian Ebbitt was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to two working class parents. Ian is the middle child with one younger and one older brother. From the age of two and a half, after obsessively watching Spider-Man cartoons every blessed morning, Ian believed that he was Spider-Man. From the knee-high red socks to the Spider-Man winter ski mask, Ian spent his formative years playing, pretending, and climbing. Oh yeah, he also began writing poetry when he was six years old.Throughout high-school, Ian used school as a vehicle to have fun, hang out with friends, and occasionally learn something, as his mediocre grades would support. Although he participated in athletics when he was younger, Ian worked during junior high and high school. He worked as a paperboy immediately after school and then from there went to work at a furniture store in the evenings. During summers, Ian would work three jobs in the course of a day; landscaping for his father’s business, then delivering news papers, and finish at the furniture store in the evening.Ian attended college about forty five minutes away from his home town of West Mifflin at California University of Pennsylvania. It was there that Ian received his undergraduate degree in Elementary Education and graduate degree in Special Education.Ian worked quite a few odd jobs along the way until settling into more of his career path of working with troubled and special needs children and their families. From there Ian worked both full time and part time as a Behavior Specialist for an agency. Also at that time, he worked as a Mental Health Therapist in a school and a Behavior Specialist at a camp for special needs children during the summers. Currently, Ian continues to work as a Program Supervisor in a school/partial hospital setting and a Behavior Specialist at a summer camp.Ian has been writing poetry and other subject matter for almost his entire life. It is his keen sense of observation and understanding of human behaviors that allows him to write with the detail and variety in topics you will read in his book, Answer Then Question: Haikus and Other Poems.
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Answer Then Question - Ian Ebbitt
Chapter 1
Haiku For You
A GREAT MOMENT...
Mouth wide, looking up
He’s only seven months old!
My boy kisses me
ANGLER’S DAY...
Scent of salty sea
Strong, slimy hands, wet red boots
A regular day
ANSWER THEN QUESTION...
Does the Lord love me?
The answer already there
My son was my proof
ARGYLE...
Old Scot perspective
Symmetrical lozenges
Timeless golfer style
BEGINNING OF SUMMER...
Fragrance of downed rain
Dog, old tent, bark of a pine:
What I remember
FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR: PART 1...
A supportive stool
Flavored ice chased with spirits
The first sip lingers
FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR: PART 2...
Thoughts are left behind
Friends share stories of the week
Woes erased for now
HARA KIRI...
An Eastern belief
Change dishonor to honor
Slow pain self-inflict
LAS VEGAS TRUTH...
Immorality
Sin blanketed in good times
Devil won this one
LUCKIEST CLOVER...
Hiding in mixed grass
Can’t quite tell, three leaves or four
I still feel lucky
MARCH 25, 2013...
White sinks towards us
Quiet, slowly, peacefully:
Heaven meets Pittsburgh
MODUS OPERANDI...
Window and a note
A working class neighborhood
Oh Damn! Arrested