My late wife used to describe me as a combination of a poet and an engineer. She was right. Sometimes, for me, the sense of having created art is the primary motivation; and sometimes, the process of writing a poem has its own rewards; its own satisfactions; its own frustrations.
For example, I imagined the following little verse as a story poem — the protagonist visits his aged parents in order to convince them to move to some sort of care facility. At the time I wrote the first version, som...
Published on September 05, 2015 15:30