Rhymes for These Tymes - Paperback

by William E. David (Author)

William David grew up in the Midwest, on the edge of the Ozarks close to the town of Joplin, Missouri. The first 5 years of his life he lived in the log cabin his grandfather built. He left home when he was 15 and supported himself with odd jobs until he joined the Army at 17. After the Army, William traveled around a lot to many parts of this country, from Alaska to Arizona and several in between. Having many adventures and getting to meet many interesting people. He found his soul mate, his wife Diane, in Tucson, Az. 43 yrs. ago, they married, and together raised two terrific kids, a daughter Jennifer, and a son, Cody. He hopes that you enjoy his poems and hopes that at least one or more will touch you in some way.

Bio:

William David has had a successful 40+ year career as a Senior Architectural & Engineering Designer working with international mining companies, designing Gold, Silver, and Copper processing plants all over the world, including being the Chief Designer of the first SX-EW copper processing plant built in Asia, located at Monywa, Myanmar. William is retired now and living with his wife of 39 yrs. in Tucson, Az. He likes spending time now devoted to his passion, reading, reviewing, and writing poetry. William writes for his pleasure and for the pleasure of those who might read his poems.

Statement from the author:

"When I write a poem, I don't seek to necessarily constrain that poem by any formal poetic style or technical form, I just write imagistically. I write in a nonce and a free form style, sometimes more of a narrative style. I write out the words as they sound right to me, while trying to stay true to the intent of the poem and what I am trying to convey to the reader. I prefer to allow the reader to understand what the poem has to say, not guess. Then, the reader can interpret and contemplate what it means to them, they don't have to speculate, just hopefully enjoy what the poem was trying to say.