Among the Reeds

About the Book

My effort at writing poetry started several years ago while I was a field hunting geese. It was a beautiful winter day that offered limited shooting, but presented a golden opportunity to sit back and reflect. I was overcome by all the glories of the wild outdoors with which I was surrounded. The song of the wild kept repeating itself in my mind until I was compelled to write it down. From that point on, I was hooked. In the years that followed, I was able to use the poetry to fully express the happiness that I felt participating in hunting and the conservation efforts. The experience of writing led me to the less traveled trail of inner reflection.

Several years after starting my hunting poems, I had the great misfortune to become disabled. My life as I knew it had ended, and I faced an unsure and frightening future. With much loving care of family and friends, I was able to overcome my anger at my fate to reflect upon those things that really mattered. During this period, my writing fully reflects my life journey down a somewhat different path. My Odyssey continues.

About the Author

These poems are a collection of reflections from a lifelong conservationist, avid hunter, and sometimes fisherman. Physical disability has limited the more rigorous outdoor pursuits, but hasn?t diminished the author?s intense infatuation with America?s wild outdoors. As always, the games of our youth become the musings of old age.