Volume 3 - That Was Then: The Early Poems Project

This book is about five stages in a writer’s young life, and the poems written in this time. There is a story to it. He is a school-boy, inexperienced; he is learning to write in poetic form. He grows older and leaves school. Now there is a greater urgency about understanding life, determining what is good, and expressing it fittingly. He enters the work force, unready, still trying to put sense into words, still seeking to be noble-spirited. Then he has an accident on a motor bike – he is knocked off and seriously injured. His life is thrust sideways. It takes time to mend. And it comes to this: he resolves to leave the city, to make a new life in the hills. The book includes over 100 poems, plus story about the writer’s life.