I'm Just Saying Is All

I’m a 60s-era poet with an abiding regard for embracing diversity and inclusion, the import of the phrase “you do you”, the precepts “Do No Harm” and “Leave No Trace”, and for the premise “I’m Ok, You’re Ok”.

I believe that enlightenment is best achieved when we engage and explore alternative points of view, that we should form opinions and convictions empirically, and that we should tender our perspectives without apology. They are merely what we believe to be true at a given point in time and are subject to change. That’s how it works when we continue to grow.

Poems are profoundly personal expressions, as are all forms of art, and ask only to be perceived without bias or critique. I have no illusions about my significance or the impact of my work. Nor do I apologize for its tenor or fret over how others might judge it, or me for it. To do otherwise would inhibit free expression, and a reticent self-conscious poet is doomed to a long and uncreative melancholy.

Naively, I hope my writing brings just an iota of awareness to the innocent, an ounce of enlightenment to the ignorant, and a wee clarity of conscience to the culpable.