Time Grown Lively

About the Book

Out of the world at hand come insights and experiences of nuances of nature and people and situations and memories, all of which play in the mind and emerge in poems.  These poems seek to open the meaning that lurks within the hiddenness of all that is so plain to see in our lives.

About the Author

I began writing poetry around my work as a minister in the early 1980s, finding that writing helped me see what I engaging in life around me. I found I wrote about the people I met, overheard, saw on the street, about anything that caught my eye and my imagination in the world through which I moved. After a while people began to say my poetry was pretty good, including some people whose opinion I thought mattered. Eventually, I chose to collect these poems from the last few years to share more broadly. I am a retired minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). My wife, Kathy, and I have been married for 43 years, raising 5 daughters and now enjoying 11 grandchildren spread across this country and France. We now live in northern West Virginia, on a 5 acre plot in the country with our two Australian Shepherd Dogs and a few cats.