Written over 52 years, these poems were part of my love for poetry and my ongoing effort to come to terms with myself, others, and the nature of the universe. Since my diagnosis of Chronic Leukemia in 2005 and my continuing treatment, I have had a more urgent motive to share them. I have organized most of them into 3 themes and distributed them over 4 volumes. Each volume is divided into 3 Parts, one for each theme. The poems are mostly ordered from the most recent to less recent across the board so the poems in Volume 1 are more recent than the poems in Volume 4, a memoir read backwards.