: About Me

I love to write poetry. I try and write every day. Have a couple of novels I hope to get to some day and the poem every day is helping with my focus.

My passion is ...

life

My parents always told me ...

be careful

My childhood ambition ...

run in the plains of Africa

My favorite memory ...

becoming a gramdmother for the first time

Why I write ...

because I need to

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

I am at work listening to the radio

My first job ...

walking a cat every day after school and on week ends. $1.50 a week

My best moment ...

to many to name.

My inspiration ...

my children and grandchildren

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Elephants

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Elephant's Plight In a fractured, shattered, speck of time He lived. He roamed the plains and savannas, had been through the great rain forest. He had survived, famine, drought, and ivory hunters. He was hunted now by farmers. A marauder of fields, a thief in his own lands. The savannas and forest had grown smaller. He had searched a long time This season for a mate, none to be found. Was he the last? Was he alone? Now he returned. The killing fields. As a young calf his herd had all died here. Man called it culling. He thought it murder, slaughter, in the killing fields. He remembered. Th...

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