A Time of Change

All of the poems in this work were written in the 1960's, a very traumatic time for most people, young and old alike. This really was a time of change not only for me as a teen (when I wrote them), but for everyone the world over in terms of what historical events were taking place. I found writing poems to be a way of dealing with the stress and uncertainty of the times. I started writing in high school in 1962 as a fourteen year old, following a summer of intense scares during the "Cuban ...