i am 58 years old... have been writing poetry for over 40 years... had a troubled youth, was in trouble a lot, was a drug addict... survived it all... have worked a variety of jobs... have 4 grown children,3 grandchildren.
was a member of the North Carolina Writer's Roundtable for a while... write poetry, songs, political and spiritual commentaries...
am somewhere between a Buddhist and a gnostic Christian...
am a renagade socialist by political nature...
believe most of all that compassion is the one true path!
for every tree you cut down,
a child is dying.
for every barrel of oil that
you drill and spill,
...
they want to
ban books, ban abortions
ban gay marriages
ban free thinking
...
how many died that day
at the World Trade Center?
how many died
in the field?
...
from a tiny acorn,
the oak tree grows.
what a man cant find,
a child will know.
...