Drinking the Ink

Poetry is a place to meet. Here words are the fresh baked goods that fill the air of poetry's cafe. We all have a table here waiting for us; for some it's tucked into a booth and for others a single seat alone. While many don't come around as often or even show up but once, there are the few us who have our well-worn chairs. We talk, laugh, and metaphor our way through verse like intimate conversations. In our hands are the mugs matching the personalities wide and varied, they are our hearts. In them - filled to the brim - is our ink. This incomprehensibly addictive fluid is drank slowly as we read or it's splashed down on paper to reveal images often even we didn't know were there. So please sit and drink the ink with me.

This book explores the heroes in us all along with a few images to invoke the right mood. Poetry is powerful like that. Slicing into our thoughts to serve up fresh insight on an old adage or truth. It deserves to be chewed, pondered over in the mind. At times a good poem is an eye opener, a perk, the coffee in our arsenal of literature. Hopefully these poems will inspire what every good poem ought to, thought and the expression of your own ink.

My poetry does not contain curse words or highly suggestive material.