Poetry has played an important role in my life since the age of five (forty-one years ago) , when I wrote my first poem:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Nothin' like having
A mom like you.
Hardly an epic, but it set a course.
I currently (2011) teach 3rd grade at a suburban Detroit public elementary school, where I work diligently to instill in my students an appreciation of the beauty of language and the benefits of writing various forms of poetry for both personal expression and enjoyment.
Steam rises through a sidewalk grill,
manifesting itself in the frigid winter air
like a
...
Feathers
the color of an azure sky,
speckles spread across her wings,
a crown atop her head,
...
combing woods on a winter afternoon
snow lies dense, bending boughs of spruce
and fir and pine
...