Poems by an Ozark Logger

About the Book

I’ve been writing poems for better than fifty years. Like other folks, I’v had my ups and downs. For some reason, when I get something on my mind, good or bad, it stays there for a while..I found that if I wrote it down in the best and fewest words possible, it helped me to get it off my mind. The result was a poem.

I’ve written poems and thrown them away or lost them. I’ve kept some of them for fifty years or more. In thie book is maybe one in four of all I’ve ever written in my life.

It’s my hope that from time someone will read one of my poems and say, “Ah yeah. I’ve been there. Done that. or maybe, “Well, I never thought about it like that.”

If that should happen to you, I’d appreciate it if you’d drop me a line to: Lenzie Myers

P.S.Don’t let the name Lenzie fool you. When I was a baby thats name was given only to little boy babies. So you’ll find me male and not female as I’ve often been mislabeled.

About the Author

Lenzie Myers, sitting on top of the log, was born Dec. 10, 1930, exactly one hundred years after Emily Dickinson. He graduated from Myerx Grade School in Bollinger County, Missouri, an old fashioned one room school which had a yearly attendance from five to thirteen students. Then the graduated form Zalma High School in 1949. The graduating class that year was in the low twenties. After spending a tour of duty with the Marines, a year of it in Korea, he graduated from Oakland City College in Indiana.

The bulk of his life was spent as a farmer, a logger, a minister and a teacher.