Peasant Poetry (Verse)

<p class=ql-align-justify>I do not intend the verses below to aspire to or imitate great or even good poetry. If the reader approaches verse from a literary perspective I suggest they not bother proceeding further. As the sub-title says these are the margin notes to my life. I have recorded my thoughts and feelings at various times and from an early age have expressed them in crude verse and rhyme. The quality will be uneven. I have included things here that evoke something in me. Re-reading these makes me re-examine my thoughts feelings and attitudes and give me a sense of change if not progress. There is no definite chronology here. The verses are not in rigid order from youth to now.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Some of the thoughts attitudes and feelings may not apply now to my thinking. Notes after all exist as mere reminders of a special place in a story. We grow and learn as a story develops. In the same way the male-centric nature of some of this reflects both the times when entitled males were generally ignorant of gender bias and the reality that I intend the male in much of this to be the writer.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>My reactions to reading these records will likely escape the reader. Those might become the subject of another verse or two some night when I immerse myself in these and feel melancholy. For now they remind me of people places and circumstance that are important.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>I hope that you find these interesting and perhaps if good at all they will raise a smile a thought or a tear. </p><p><br></p>