I love to do things with words, and poetry is what comes from such playing with words. Most of my poems are just my mind, playing with my heart's thoughts. Some of my poems come from life experience and others from nature or things that happen in life. In putting this book together, I found many of my poems are liked, for they are written in words that everyone can read and understand. I dream one day to hear someone say, "I read that poem and loved it." Nothing would make me more proud than to know my poems touched someone's heart in a good way. To write poems and not know if people will...