: About Me

Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than Knowledge."

I've been writing in different forms professionally since I was 14, mostly plays and teleplays. But now that I'm older I prefer painting on tighter canvases - like poetry and journalism. Our lives are best lived in those rare moments that we inhabit fully and completely and openly, and living the writer's life gives us that chance. Life is short and lets enjoy it by firing both barrels in salute to the opportunity Helium gives us! Break the rules, forgive quickly, and love truly! Here's a bio:

Willard Simms is the author of 11 published plays,14 produced teleplays, and two television mini-series. Mr. Simms is an expert in biographical drama, and included in his television work are scripts on Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and a Mini-series on the life St. Francis of Assissi. His play about the life of Richard Wright, "Wright From America", was one of the winners of the Juneteenth National Playwriting Competition in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of "POE!", an eleven character drama which won the Maltese Falcon Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His one person play, "Einstein: A Stage Portrait", played Off Broadway at the American Jewish Theatre, has been produced all over the world, and was shown for three years on USA television. "Bye Bye Blackbird" his script about the life of Flapper Queen Zelda Fitzgerald, made virtually every media Critics Pick list at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and recently completed a world tour.

My passion is ...

Writing, fishing, and loving.

I know too much about ...

I love knowledge, I don't know too much about anything.

My parents always told me ...

Don't be a writer.

My childhood ambition ...

Professional baseball player

My favorite memory ...

I have lots and lots of favorites.

Why I write ...

To express, to communicate, to share, to be!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Books, plays, movies with multi-layered truths.

My first job ...

Writer.

My best moment ...

I couldn't rank anything as ALL TIME FIRST.

My inspiration ...

Great art of any kind.

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Nightmares

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                     NIGHT Sleep washes away mistakes and missteps. Sweet dreams call when life seems most forlorn And I drift on silken pillows of forgiving darkness Into a land of soft pastels and sweet melodies. But landscapes here are Dali-esque, without rules, And sudden changes can melt away all harmonies. So it is I find myself steering an out of control car Watching the side mirrors scrape, then shear off, Against the walled road narrowing in front of me. Now I press h...

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