No known Poet and/or Author influenced me to begin writing.From as far back as i can remember i have always loved-Mother Nature-and all her darling children & critters...at a young age i was,oddly,adverse to going even near any Church;however, my deceased mother 'Dianne' made me go to Sunday School,which i abhorred!Yet every time i went inside any Church or religious center, i felt like i was Home-not as a person attending some solemn ritual. No i felt at, home... and poetry was part of me in the aspect of Song,dance and the written word... My early poetry was meandering and child more...