Over thirty years ago, an idea came into my head, then I wrote my first poem. This one poem sparked an over three-decade adventure. All these poems and prose I have written came from different places inside my being. Some came out of news headlines; others, from my years growing up on our family farm. My faith spurred several of my simple writings, which helped me explore the inner workings of my faith. Love was a strong emotion that fueled many of my poems and prose; they came truly from my heart. The ideas for these writings also came from when I was young and throughout my life, my friends, family, work, the public, and from the simpleness of an innate thought. My writings cover several different categories: Go, Family, Love, Life, Suicide, Olympics, Race/Slavery, Devil, Dreams, General (Ones that don't fit anywhere), Therapy, and Prison. I am not a literary scholar; as the title says, I am a simple country boy. I have no degree in literature, and my poems and prose do not follow any of the typical poetic and prose authors. When I decided to publish them, I knew my target audience was the average person on the street. They need to read poems and prose in layman's terms, ones that they can relate to and connect with. That said, they still have many qualities and expressions that anyone can appreciate. As you will find in my works, take a leap of faith.....
