Real Life Poems

This book is powerful collection of poetry that does an excellent job of expressing feelings, perceptions and experiences of life itself. These poems will easily relate to many as they speaks. They touch on many topics that many of us will likely come back to read them over depending on what's going on in their lives. It might make this book your favorite for a long time to come.

This book of poems is about me and what I gathered in my lifetime that I put into poetry form. I tried to categorize the poems into different emotions that I felt when I wrote them, but some of them had many feelings that were hard to separate. Being a student of A Course in Miracles brings spiritual tones to some of my poems and keep humorous sounds to many. 

You can say that this book of poems is a sort of memoir. My life has had many changes, which created a lot of experiences that kind of keep me interested in life itself. I retired early and decided to do things that I only dreamt of, which led me to many other endeavors that I never imagined. 

This poetry book is one. In my early retirement my late wife, Sherry, who was many years younger than I, worried that I had very little to do, so she encouraged me to take a poetry class to keep busy. I registered for an adult education class in Great Neck, New York. The teacher, or more of a leader, was Kent Ozarow, who encouraged and helped the class express thoughts in poetry form. She gave us assignments to read well-recognized poetry as ideas to write about, but always gave us the freedom to write whatever we wanted. 

This book has a poem about my first day in her class. I give many thanks to Kent Ozarow for setting me on my way, and eventually writing one-act plays. To this day, when I have a feeling that I want to convey, I write. 

I wrote the  poem above because I was so surprised that I could be part of the literary community by writing poetry in a style I was comfortable with. 

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