Words In The Night

How do you explain where the words come from-that even you do not know? I say from “MY ANGELS.”

I guess it started in Hawaii when we took our daughter to meet her grandparents.

In the light of night, pen and paper, I wrote what came to mind. Next morning, showing what I had written, my mother asked “how about writing one for me?” Several nights passed and once again the words came. Her advice to me was “do not lose these, save them.” As it turned out, those were my first of many poems.

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