Mr Glenn Kennedy Graves

Reflections of Life: Poetryto Make You Think, Smile & Laugh Mr Glenn Kennedy Graves

Publisher Marketing: Reflections of life is a collection of poems; some are essays on things we see and experience every day, some are special memories from times past during the author's life of 70 years. Most of the poems are written in four line stanzas with rhyming words at the ends of each two lines. Some are humorous and some are almost spiritual in nature. Some are factual; there are poems that describe love and its relationships, and even the elements of nature. Some reflect a life of living alone and the stillness and noises I hear around me. Some are patriotic and reflect my Boy Scout and Military experiences. In fact, there is just about something for everybody in this collection. Tennis players and Starbucks customers will relate to a few, as will men who are single and enjoy female friends and companions. It's probably more "Father knows Best" and "Ozzie and Harriet" than the "Simpsons" and "Saturday Night Live." Teachers will enjoy sharing them with students, because of the way the words are poetically laid out, in comparison to traditional sentence structure as we used to "diagram" them. The relationship of nouns to verbs and adjectives can be a little different with poetry due to a need to rhyme. This is an enjoyable book to read, and one that you can pick up over and over again and appreciate something new each time. Contributor Bio:  Graves, MR Glenn Kennedy Born in 1940, Glenn Graves grew up in Pacific Palisades, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles, and became an Eagle Scout before attending UniHi. He graduated from Colorado University (BS Bus), married and became a banker all in 1964. He was still subject to the Viet Nam draft, and in January 1966, he was inducted into the Army. After OCS, the Army sent him to Ft. Lewis, WA, where he ended up commanding a Basic Training Company. In 1975 he moved his family to San Diego, CA, and became a Title Insurance Rep. He divorced in 1989, and today he is a retired RE Broker who plays doubles tennis, and the fastest growing court sport for older adults, Pickleball.