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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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