About the author
Writers are said to have an “active imagination,” and I’m afraid I’m no exception. I have proven that I can hold down the standard 9 to 5 job, but I always give myself a little “mental recess.” For me, poetry is about entering a mental playground. When I write a poem, I’m tossing metaphors or climbing a jungle gym of synonyms and antonyms.
My love of poetry began in high school. Although I was sometimes bored with Tennyson’s Morte D’Artur, I learned to appreciate the different forms of rhythm and rhyme. My interest was piqued during college literature courses. My professors savored poems as if they were seven course meals. It was during this intellectual period that my mind was fertilized in preparation for my first book, The Seed of Faith.
I have always fancied myself an artist and a writer. I have avoided the meticulous tasks involved in drawing or painting. For me, art is about capturing beauty. And what better way to capture the beauty of a flower than with a camera? Who wants to paint pollen particles when a click on the shutter will accomplish the same thing? Of course, that’s a different story.
About my site
This website will eventually contain my first book (The Seed of Faith) in its entirety. When I began this work (near the end of my four year program), my mind was still bathed in the amniotic fluid of classic poetry. Indeed, a friend of mine even suggested I “loosen up,” so I started experimenting with blank verse and modern concepts.
My second work (A Fountain of Verses) was a collaborative effort, and I only recently digitized it. I plan to add those poems here as well.
In addition to my first work, I have included several newer poems. To date, they have not been organized into a collection, so I sort of “dumped” them together as Recent Works.
I hate to use clichés, but this blog is a “work in progress.” Over time, I plan to tweak and add to my site. Enjoy!
