: About Me

I have been writing for most of my life, but became serious about it in 1993 after my father, Robert Bayles died, so I could get on wtih my life. I am very involved with the Iowa-Illinois writing community. My poetry has been published in a number of literary magazines and anthologies, including "Lyrical Iowa", "The Rockford Review" and "Out Loud Anthology of Poetry". My fiction is also widely published in literary magazines, including "The Rockford Review", "The Nocturnal Lyric" and "Stand Alone." My writing has been featured on WVIK Public Radio, Rock Island. One of my poems just won the "Poem of the Year" for the Out Loud reading series, sponsor by The Midwest Writing Center.

My passion is ...

Writing

I know too much about ...

Nothing

My parents always told me ...

Do the best I can.

My childhood ambition ...

Write

My favorite memory ...

Time spent with this one friend.

Why I write ...

I breathe

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

John Updike

My first job ...

mailroom for a newspaper

My best moment ...

when Paul McCartney walked onto stage for a concert

My inspiration ...

Paul McCartney. love, my background

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Mud puddles

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Mud Play After the rain, when water and dirt make goo this play delights. What a sight it is, children covered in mud and laughing while splashing in their imagination, the ponds and lakes, when cleanliness forsakes, the delight they seek until the sun evaporates their dreams.

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