Ts Bola

The Practical Poet (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

My first book, "One Bad Night in Mexico," was written about five years ago, not because I actually aspired to do so, but mainly because of my younger brother's insistence to do so. I think my resistance to write the book was because of the painful memories that were involved in that near-death experience. However, later on, I even published a second edition of it, with a postscript explaining what had been happening since that horrible incident. As such, since then, I have been completing my present project of finishing the writing of 150 poems to be published in the next two or three months. I am writing this in November of 2015, so maybe by January or February of 2016, this book, "The Practical Poet," will be published. It will consist of 150 poems that I have written over a period of time from 1967 until 2015. The poems reveal a variety of themes and emphases, but many have moral/ethical threads embedded in them, regardless of their type. Some of the poems are written with the obvious intent of humor, others for clarification of a subject, and others for spiritual emphasis. As such, I simply wish for you to read and enjoy my labor of love, as well as occasional stress, which you will likely note in some of the poems. These poems likely reveal much about my ideas, preferences, convictions, beliefs, views of worldly situations, and my personality. However, in reading these poems, I believe that you will not only have an occasional laugh but you might even learn something new in these writings. Anyway, I hope you read and enjoy!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514435137
• Artikelnr.: 52602421

Autorenporträt

My pen name is TS Bola, and on 22 December 2015, I will reach seventy-eight years of age. I was born in Texas, and as such, I am a genuine Texan! I grew up as a rough-and-tumble type of child, liking to play football and did so for several years. I enrolled in two different junior colleges and studied in five universities. But after the second junior college experience, I joined the U.S. Army for three years and spent two of those years in Munich, Germany. After that, I got married and started to study again in a university. After many years of studying, I have attained four university degrees: BA, MEd, EdS, and PhD in psychology. These degrees and extensive work experiences have given me many experiences for writing. I worked at various jobs to pay for my education, including in the West Texas oilfields as a truck driver, construction worker, roustabout, and roughneck. As a professional, I have worked as a teacher in public schools in Texas, New Mexico, and Louisiana, teaching in the areas of Spanish, general science, physical and health education, special education and also worked as an educational diagnostician and psychologist. In New Mexico, I worked as a coach in the sports of football, wrestling, and track and field. In the 1990s I worked eight years as clinical director in a Texas Juvenile Prison. I formally retired in 2001 but have still done some occasional contract work in the area of psychology/counseling, as well as teaching some classes at a university.