Dennis Drake

DENNIS DRAKE has published a book of poems, What You Feel, I Share, and is working on another.

On the Demise of Poets

Somewhere, deep in the background of the world,
Lost in this traffic of hurrying men,
A forgotten bush burns vaguely.
No one turns aside to see,

And We Were Young

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 3

I will tell you now that words come hard for me. Perhaps that is why I value them so highly. And I make no apology for being simple where most men are complex and complex where many men are simple.