Thoughts and Feelings from the Heart

About the Book

The poems contained in Thoughts and Feelings from the Heart were written during four major periods of my life, as I grew from a teenager to an old man. As a young child I felt shackled with many emotional chains placed upon me by my family and society. Over the years I slowly freed myself from those chains. During the process I had to destroy most of my childhood thoughts and images to release the dark pain of my early life. I kept my Universalist Church heritage and my love for the natural world, but erased nearly all memories of family and school. Once I have completed a poem, I never alter a word. The thoughts and feelings expressed in each poem reflect my true thoughts and feelings at the time of writing.

About the Author

Malcolm D. Beebe was born just before the start of World War II. As the son of a lawyer and a high school English teacher, he spent his entire childhood in the quiet village of Kenmore, New York. He started writing poetry in high school and believed then that he should become a writer. Thirty-five years later he was given the time, while incarcerated in a Tennessee prison, to realize his teenage dream by writing his inspirational fiction. Malcolm earned a B.S. degree in Political Science from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, leading to a brief career as a computer programmer. The spirituality expressed in his writings is drawn from his early life and his experiences while raising two families.