God's Book of Poetry
We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10) I’m sometimes asked when and how I started writing poetry. Ever since I can remember, I have made up rhymes to express my feelings. But it wasn’t until my junior year of high school when an English teacher taught us how to write English Verse, that I learned how to put my thoughts into repeating rhythm and rhyme patterns, unlocking the ability I had unknowingly desired . Since then I have written hundreds of poems using a personalized form of English Verse. My dad used to say that nothing is hard if you know how. Although that didn’t always make sense in my younger days, I have found it to be true. Though there are exceptions to the rule — for instance I never was able to master the piano in spite of lessons and practice — it is true of writing English Verse. In past years, I conducted week long workshops, tea...