richard-c-thomas
After college and two years in the army, I became a high school business teacher and basketball coach in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Eleven years later, I switched to teaching fifth- and sixth-grades in the middle school. / Since the poems in the textbooks were nearly all free verse, I began writing rhymed, metered poems for my students so that they could experience the rhythmic cadences that I had enjoyed when a boy reading Poe, Kipling, Whittier, etc. Over the years I wrote over eighty such poems with themes suitable for their ages. / Since retiring, I've continued to write poems, but with adult themes such as the sample I sent you.
