Poetry can be history, emotion, experience, or exploration of the imagination. It seemed, suddenly, everything became not as ordinary as it appeared and I began a life sentence in a metaphoric mind. the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, I pursued reading, writing and living poetry. The love of poetry began more than forty years ago with the work of William Blake. “a mixing bowl with no sense of separation. This simple characteristic was the trigger that changed a box of crayons into stickmen of racial segregation. Society had become a melting pot of cautious consciousness and the simple became complex. They were replaced by a sixty-four color box and a growing sensitivity to racial connotations. There were no longer the eight basic colors of my day. As I was writing the poem, "Composite Color," crayons had gone through a metamorphosis.
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