I really never thought much about becoming a poet. My writing
poetry was a way of expressing my innermost feelings about things
that affected my life or that I enjoyed or cared about. I think
that you will sense a growing mataurity in my writing as you read
more of my poems. My poems touch on a number of subjects such as
life, death, nature, love of family, and love of God while others
reflect on just ordinary things that each of us deal with in our
lives. I hope that reading these poems causes each of us to think
more deeply about who we are and who we want to become. I hope some
of them make us laugh at ourselves while others give us a different
perspective about life. I feel that God meant for this gift of
poetry to be shared with others. That is why it is being published.
Enjoy the journey. Wayne Hampton
