I started writing poetry as a cheat of sorts; I could write a compact story very quickly. My sister Debbie is the poet in the family. I do my best. She writes beautiful, heartfelt prose that makes you think. She was the one that explained Robert Frost’s “Two Roads” poem to me so that I understood it was about his decision not to go to war. I thought it had to do with walking in the forest.
Anyway, in this Author Reading, I recite some of my favorites poems and explain why I wrote them.
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Qo_ZAGnyo[/embedyt]© 2018, Michael Shawn Sommermeyer. All rights reserved.
