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Poetics Presents

Tom Spencer

Tom Spencer started writing poetry in the eighth grade because he had a teacher who made a difference and encouraged him. He worked as a millwright for several years and also operated a sewing business with his wife Kathy. They currently own a bed and breakfast business in Indiana that caters to writers.

By age 40, Tom dreamed of writing once again, but by this time he had started to have vision problems. Eventually he was able to acquire a talking computer, went back to writing. Spencer disciplines himself to write for a minimum of two hours a day. Tom served a stint as mentor for a fiction course. He is a very active member of the WVU poetry sections, first in the T. S. Eliot Room Poetry Workshop and now Word Weavers.

Spencer says that a person should: "write about what you see and when you have written enough something will come up that makes it worthwhile."

Writers' Village members look forward to reading more of Tom's work.

Lost Love

Most often in the fading light of day
When becalmed the lake, like glass it be
Your image deep within my soul will stay
A ghostly moon creates a dream of thee

My mind will reel in distant reveries
Of life and youth of love, indecision
Aspirations then, now but memories
Of foolish youth and grandiose visions

While in this depth of idle thought, I stand
Clear the winter's air, sharp the bite of frost
Alone upon this fallow barren land
I think of you, reviewing what is lost

Love of you, so very deep entrenched
From life, from me, tragic death, has wrenched