Garden Song

<p>In the garden are beauty and thought poetry and reflection expressions of modern living and inner life situations of personal happenings appropriate to everyone words based on modern rhythmic poetry paths and applications to shared understandings. Sy Hakim’s diverse and extensive background education and service serves as his poetic and artistic base—his garden.</p><p>Born raised and educated in New York City he has taught and been a counselor in East Harlem during its more tempestuous days encouraging underprivileged young men. He served in the US Army during the Korean conflict as an educated neuropsychiatric technician; the exposures and insights are memorable.</p><p>He has also lived and taught in Europe as it was being rebuilt after WWII (1960–1993). While in Europe he traveled extensively seeking the culture he had read about as a student. Memorable experiences included driving out from Prague Czechoslovakia as the Russian tanks drove in to secure communist rule. Czech friends telephoned shortly after midnight to tell them to escape before it was too late!</p><p>As with all life experiences and impressions are continually absorbed thought rethought and thought over in the garden of the mind. Sy has continued to exhibit art internationally as well as being published in journals books and most recently contemporary zines. Everyone’s mind is their own unique garden an expression of their experiences but all gardens are fertile and compatible and are able to share in the knowledge the understanding and the beauty of their being. Sempre avanti!</p>