Just Poems

These are not my poems, nor do they belong to the reader, and they do not exist unto themselves. Each one is like a tree unaware that it is. When a poem is ready for birth, it talks to me, and I write it. It is just a poem, like a tree is just a tree. There are no good or bad trees-just trees, just poems.

In 1951, Larry Logan was born and grew up in Tacoma, Washington. Larry has worked as a house painter, an elementary special education teacher, a custodian, a drug and alcohol counselor, and a life coach. Today he is retired, still living in Vancouver with his wife, Tami, and happy. Larry began writing poetry in high school, the usual dribble that teenagers write, and continued to write on and off since. In 2008, after a divorce and loss of employment due to mental or emotional illness, Larry began writing daily as an expression of his personal journey from darkness to light. Larry likes progressive Christianity and studies the history of Christianity and development of its theology. He practices mindfulness and centering meditation.