I wrote poems of my own as a young person in high school from the late 1950s into the mid 1960s when our country was going through such difficult social times. I remember doing a research paper about nursery rhymes for an English class at that time.

Between 1970 and 1988 I can not remember writing any poetry. While in China, I started writing again.

In the 1990s I taught American and English Literature in high school (9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades). I spent a great deal of time working with my Chinese step-daughter on high school homework during that time and as I worked with her I started using poetry in my teaching efforts with ESL students. There is a "readroom" .zip file on this site that may be downloaded that contains some of the poetry from my students. RR-ESL.ZIP

Poetry is such a personal thing that I doubt that anything here will be of interest except to some of my relatives and students.

A number of these poems are listed in the menu to the right.

To My Nephew, Bill 1946 Keth Dickson Yesterday, Today, Now May 1988 Wal-Mart Immigrants Fall 1992 My Words June 1993 Civilizations June 1993 Desire, In San Miguel June 1993 Mr. Eubank's Car June 1994 Hao Vu Ride 'em & Ride 'im February 1999 And I Was (Re)Connected August 1999

Reflected Eyes September 1999 Killing Fields On Our Shore November 1999 THEY Were Wrong December 1999 Electric Chair July 2000 Teacher July 2000 Paintwriting-2 July 2000 CyberGod September 2000 I Will Set You Free May 2001 Thoughts on Miz Jan Henry October 2002