Spectrum

Poetry is closest to the heart. Through its symbols word pictures intuition feelings and emotions it is a hint of history the momentary present and a visionary tool of the future. A poem or a painting is analogous to an iceberg-10% visible 90% hidden meaning. The reader provides the narrative. These poems with the exception of five or six were written after 2000. They show my explorations into the arts love people I met along the way my protestations introspections and new perspectives I gained after times of change personal problems and separations from those I love. The poems enabled me to find new strength to harness my thoughts of years past to live peaceably in the present and to recognize that a future of dreams and hopes can become reality.