Each of us have a God given gift that not everyone finds. Some find the gift later in life and the fortunate few, know what it is almost immediately. They are truly the lucky ones.

You know you’ve found your gift, when it is the only thing that really truly keeps your interest. When your performing your gift, the time flies by and you’re having fun.

I found my gift later on in life, and I found it quite by accident. I was messing around and decided to write a rhyme for my wife’s aunt, who was in a nursing home. It seemed kinda easy to do at the time. I still didn’t write my second rhyme for at least another six months.

Then I wrote a rhyme for my wife’s birthday. It was seven verses long and when I read it to her, she cried, because I was able to capture in rhyme what I couldn’t say just talking to her. That’s when I realized that maybe I had found something. For the next couple of years, I would write poems for different people as gifts and the rest just slowly evolved.

The secret to writing poems for me is capturing the feelings in rhyme of what the sender tells me about the subject. That also is the fun of writing rhyme. I know I’ve achieved it when the person the poem is written about or the sender laughs or cries.

There are so many things that should be said between people and I feel honored to be the communicator that translates it for them.