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Discovering Poetry En Route to Life
"Poetry, my father quoted it frequently, my grandmother collected it in
scrapbooks --cards from friends, I memorized snatches of it in school. Poetry
really came to me as a young father when my family and I needed to move across
the country away from our best friends. It was an unsettled, lonely. time and I
started taking walks in the evening to relax. It was spring. Lemon blossoms.
Amazingly, I felt something in me wanting to flow out and dance-- and words--
short poems tumbled out of me. I was surprised, encouraged, and felt happily
hooked. Then one day I serendipitously discovered another poet, and then a small
community of poets. For the next 25 years I shared poetry with them. Poetry is a
discovery I have made on my way to finding my life."
