I have always been a great admirer of Robert Burns since I was at school.  However, I never wrote a poem or even read much poetry until New Year's Day of 1991. On that particular day I was reorganizing my song books and sheet music. From one of the books fell a piece of music paper with three bars of music and the words; "By the Bonnie River Stinchar." Upon closer examination it turned out to be in my hand writing and it was an attempt to write a song from approximately thirty years earlier. I sat down and completed that first poem within an hour. The following day I wrote "Take Me Home" and to this day I continue to write poetry and revise many of my existing poems. The poems vary in form and subject and many contain references about my experiences in life, including growing up in Maybole and south western Scotland.
                                                                       ..................William F. Davidson