Synopsis: 21st Century Bread is a collection of 99 short sketches, both serious and funny, in verse. It unfolds with a number of youthful edge-of-your-seat adventures. Later poems treat topics reflecting marriage, children, aging parents, and a host of other relationships.

The latter include the arts, modern physics, musings on the origins of man, and man’s present stewardship of planet Earth. The book concludes with “Twelve Dances” for readers and poets in pursuit of the pleasures of poetry.

You the Reader find your own life mirrored in these poems too. You sense that you have been there as well. In the experience you share with the poet you discover a new (or perhaps forgotten) and enlarged sense of your own oneness with all living things in the planetary community which is Earth.

“What’s in this book for me?” you have to ask yourself. In a way, a collection of poems is the ultimate ‘self-help’ book. Why? Because self-help has a spiritual (not religious, but spiritual) dimension to it, as does poetry. In this book you meet lots of characters. They make you chuckle. Laugh out loud. Sit up and take notice. Cry. Each has an outlook on life, and maybe more than a little wisdom. They offer you encouragement, or, it may be, a reality check. Real people just like you. They talk straight.

What are you waiting for? Buy it in print. Or choose the download at half-price. (Get the print later. When you’ve savored it. When you’ve thought of all the people who would appreciate it as a gift. And you for thinking of them.) Click on the cover image and buy it now!