My Jesus

Hi C. I like Jesus because it is more personal. Many people would not even know what/who Nazarene even meant. It is interesting though what does come through in conversations and attitudes in various locations. Just like years ago, in norther Quebec we drank tea, and learning only coffee was the treat in Toronto. Take care. Richard

Hi C. Pun. Many years ago i met a man who came from Prince Edward Island. His name was Milton Acorn, now deceased and his poetry book, "I've Tasted My Blood" was apparently a best seller, something hard to achieve for a poetry book. He was called the workingman's poet with words and phrases most people could easily understand, which is something I strive to emulate. In fact, I do not yet have such a book published, and would like to, in my own style. My very good friend, Raymond Souster, recently deceased at 92, was my first and only poetry mentor and his words were also for the common person. He published 50 full (90 poems and up) hardcover books with good publishers, and several more to come out posthumously. Some poetry can be too complicated to be savoured, in my opinion, with words not often used by the general public, causing people to pause in their reading, which can knock their momentum off course. My desire is for my story-poems to have a natural flow, with perhaps a unique way of expressing the same thing already revealed in a thousand different ways. That to me is the joy of writing. Cheers---Richard