The Reluctant Poet

Poetry can be an important part of any person's life. The author's poetic loves and influences are T.S. Eliot, Odgen Nash, H.D., William Pratt, Milton, Longfellow, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and Dr. Suess. There is also the unmistakable influence of Holy Bibles of many versions, providing daily doses of powerful religious poetry in the Psalms and Prophets. And in the author's memory banks, still alive with the marvelous illustrations, sits the 1961 Childcraft Poems of Early Childhood and Storytelling and Other Poems. "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes stands out as a most passionate and evocative love poem that is still remembered vividly to this day. Exorcizing the fear of revealing herself through poetry is an important step in the author's life as a writer. These poems are collected into broad themes based on a life that feeds on poetry.