Soft the Wind of Memory

The poems in this book are simple to read and understand. These poems are written to play on the reader's emotions. They will cause you to reflect on the past, childhood and family. Your emotions will parade before your eyes as you read. You will become nostalgic with longing for things your memory recalls. You will see life through another's eyes with the rhythm of song. There are poems you will want to commit to memory, others you will hide in your heart. Poems to make you laugh and to make you cry and joy in your heart to abound.

The Author became interested in poetry after the death of his mother-in-law. He wrote "Death Angel" to express his feelings of helplessness. He wrote to put emotions on paper that were hid in his heart. He wrote poems of love, grief, death, life, nature, family and spiritual poems. As he wrote sometimes tears would stain the page as emotions were transferred by his pen. Some poems were about his experiences, some were written as he took on life experiences of others as in the poem "Flight 800". As a farmer and rancher he knows how much he depends on God and reflects this as in the poem "Farmer". He is a Christian that loves the Lord, family and America.