I am a retired Special Education Teacher and Administrator who worked for the California State Hospital System. I also worked briefly for the Department of Corrections. I presently serve as a member of the Executive Committee and as Chaplain for San Bernardino American Legion Post 14.

I am great grandpa to three great granddaughters; grandfather to fivr grandsons and father of two daughters and a son. They make my life more complete and more worth living.

I'm presently single.

Though I'm retired, I still officiate at weddings and funerals. Http://www.freewebs.com/oldbear34/

My passion is ...

finding out why!

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

Tell the truth, you little liar; you're just like your father!

My childhood ambition ...

To become a Marine and win the love of my 3rd grade teacher.

My favorite memory ...

Holding each of my children the first time.

Why I write ...

I can't not write.

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

I'm reading Al Gore's latest book/watching CNN/listening to KennyG

My first job ...

was feeding my Aunt's chickens and collecting their eggs for 10 cents an hour.

My best moment ...

when I became an American Legion Chaplain

My inspiration ...

to publish my novels and write more of them, my poems, too!

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Losing love

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Whispers

There is no reason to listen for she is gone.
Her voice has been stilled and will no more
answer my comments, queries, pleas.
Not even sibilant sounds from her lips reach
our ears nor warm our hearts or cold souls.

Silences deep now fill my heart since
Wisconsin's dark wet soil claimed her as his own.
His turf would not part to release her back,
nor return to us our source of warmth, warmer
than the great golden orb in cloudless sky above.

Drunkenness accompanied us aboard the California
bound train and bore me home to an apartment
bare, scoured clean of her frag...

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