Composure in Constraint

I am a retired minister from the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) living in the hills of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. During the course of my ministry, noticing that some of my work came with a special sort of cadence, I began writing poetry on purpose; that was in the early 1980s. The process and product of writing poetry has been useful and satisfying to me. In April 2004, I began a few years of fruitful attendance on the online poetry workshop Desert Moon Review. I learned a great deal about poetry in that attendance - its reading as well as the writing. I frequently share poems with the particular "muses" who occasioned the poems; I had a recent comment that the poems so shared, when reread, brought comfort. I now live in retirement with my wife of forty nine years, two dogs and several cats.