Dear Reader
This poetry was started right about the time of the blizzard of '78 in small New England towns like Attleboro, MA, Dublin, NH, and Lamoine, ME.
(Might have been something in the air) In 1986 the first 100 (+/-) copies of Volume I were sold while the poet pumped gas at a Sunoco station on
South Willow Street, in Manchester, New Hampshire. More was written back in Maine through the remainder of the 80s and Volumes V through XII were
organized in the early 90s, but never released. Eleven of those poems made it into Veracious Verse, a "best of series" picked by the poet, and
published by LuckyPress.com. No copies were sold, and those volume numbers were retired because those poems and their numbers were used in print.
Volumes XIII through XVI were written during that publishing process and in the aftermath of the great adrenaline rush. Not much has taken place
in the way of publication since, except Collected Worx, 2014, which has all the volumes and those eleven poems and has just reach over 100 copies;
copies are given out on cruises and haphazardly along the way...
Volume XVII was added recently (6APR21), and Volume XVIII continues to grow (the original four hundred numbers was obviously not enough)... Some more
poetry was added to the current notebooks this past winter (20/21), but most of my writing is to my Queen and about my spiritual journey, so I cannot
say when another Volume might be coming.
Dear Reader
This volume was released out of order, without poem numbers (they have been given their numbers now), because volume XVII was still being created. Originally this was
intended to be released as a video blog of "Poems to the Queen"; Little Linda Mae (Beal), my wife who just passed in January of this year (2020; the
year of the Rat, and its subsequent plague...). But, after finding a poem i had written the day after she left me her body, I realized that it may be
quite some time before I would be able to read them in a composed manner. So, I try to post one each day, quite early, on the "real"
poetrypalacegiftshop.com site, and move the prior posting to the Poetry Palace T V page of said site... Then Once a week I move them from the Poetry
Palace T V page to this growing volume and add their pix...
Still writing and posting poems; 6APR21.
Still writing and posting poems; 8JAN22.
Still writing and posting poems; 8JAN23.
I may have to finish this posthumously...
...sorry you won't see it!