Dedication: To Mom and Dad ...
    Who against their better judgment allowed me to grow up the way I wanted to
    and then chose to be proud of me anyway.

    Poetry has a bad reputation in the general population. It is seen as a literature of
    insignificant value. Murky writings that are difficult if not impossible to understand
    with little or no value in daily life.

    Hopefully, the poetry of our generation is changing that evaluation. Many poets
    today write clear, concise, plain, understandable, and useful poems. I was
    struggling with how to say this, and on a December morning I turned a page in
    Walt McDonald’s Faith is a Radical Master and in the afterword read:

             Robert Frost claimed poetry at its best can be “a momentary stay
         against confusion.” I like that - and I think maybe he’s right. Even the
          everyday has splendors that we strain to capture and save, or at least
          express for seconds in phone calls and letters - in form or on canvas,
          in melodies, or in scribblings we call poems.

    This is what I hope you’ll find in the scribblings of Poetry Floats.

    This is my fifth book of verse that I had to write for you. After boiling down 60
    years of life I have either gotten down to the distilled nectar of life or the scum at
    the bottom of the pot. Frankly any particular day can go either way. But this is
    what I want to tell you. Live in the now moment of your life. Touch it, twist it,
    clarify it, gripe about it, enjoy it, but above all be conscious of it. If you live in the
    past you live in regret - which you can’t do anything about. If you live in the future
    you live in a hope - which you can’t do anything about either, and you are missing
    now. So love now. Make the most of it because now is where your pot is boiling
    and where you can effect your life. Do it. Enjoy. Read a few of these verses.

    Talk to me ...  jwilson@abilene.com
        Jim



    Copyright -- Jim Wilson 2009
Poetry Floats
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