Life is really amazing out there
so I write poems about it and if
I can learn to master change
rather than allow it to master me
I will continue to write poems
about life while continuing to
enjoy it not going through it
acting as if it will never end
and simply following every trend.

My poetry is not obscure and
it speaks clearly about things
that readers can recognize in a
language that can be understood
and it focuses upon feelings and
responses that we have all shared.

My poems have a simplicity and
a directness and communicate
directly without confronting the
reader with either excessive
difficulties either of language
or allusion.

My poems live on their page in an
unrehearsed natural rhythm of
experience and moment of time
rather than of ideas and above all it
is readable while focusing upon
significant and recognizable human
feelings and responses of daily life.
                                                              Jon York      2014