Publisher's Synopsis
Life is filled with inspiration, joy and sorrow. Still in every corner there is poetic justice - the rhythms and rhymes in verse which carry us forward on our daily paths. Emotions can be encapsulated in words and music - a web of sound that evokes every humor and every flavor. The senses come alive when words gush from the heart and then are tamed by the Poet's craft. Images sane and insane. Thoughts sacred and profane. Taken together, shapes form and landscapes spring to mind. A world without a touch of poetry in it is a world best shunned by sentient beings. Catherine and Other Poems are the sins of youth, when this poet first set pen to paper and dashed off dozens of verses a day. From that mountainous pile has been mined a few worthwhile morsels gathered in this vessel and offered to the world because, as we know, a world without a touch of poetry in it is a world best shunned by sentient beings. I am a descendant of Robert Herrick and poetry courses through my veins.
