My mom said I could swim before I could walk. I think she was right. I love to be outside playing or working - it doesn't matter - as long as I'm outside.
Spent 23 years in the navy as a deep sea diver and engineering officer. I would do it again.
I teach middle school now - great second career!
I just recently started posting my poems to a website I created - I use pictures as backgrounds - works well I think: www.visualpoems.net
Buried beneath the silt
Under a hundred centuries of mud
Long before one, two, three
And as lovely as a tree
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Wake up little pinecone
The rain has fallen and the air is fresh
And someday you will be a tree
The tallest tree in the land
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Desire is a sweet perfume
On hands and lips that touch
Its musular back and smooth long legs
Bring to droughts the rain
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'How dare you, that's ridiculous
Roared the gaint to the curious child
The child who studied dancing armadillos
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Cold arctic air descends nevously on frozen lakes today
Wild flowers fall to their knees to pray
Snowflakes beg, grass shivers, and rivers thirst
Eagles watch apprehensively from miles above
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