Nature

by James Thomas Fletcher

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781729620472

James Thomas Fletcher has lived in a tenth-century Cistercian Monastery in Belgium, the Piedmont of the Carolinas, a protected heron rookery in the northern wetlands, the Acadian bayous of Louisiana, the short¬grass prairie of the Great Plains, and on the side of a volcano in the Republic of Panamá. He also trekked through the jungles of Vietnam while in the United States Army.

He has steamed down the Amazon River, sailed the Atlantic in a storm, scuba dived in the Pacific, skydived in Oklahoma, and snowshoed in Canada.

These poems reflect those experiences and his impressions of the flora, fauna, and weather—the true sense of place—of the many locations that he has called home.

Genres: Poetry

Paperback

Published November 19, 2018

About the author

James Thomas Fletcher is native to Oklahoma. After a brief stint in college, he left the state to see if the rest of the world existed. Along the way, he picked cotton, made fiberglass and, in hazmat suit, cleaned filters inside a nuclear laundry. He was an M-60 machine gunner in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, company clerk at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, (NATO\SHAPE) in Belgium, bartender in South Carolina, bricklayer in Oklahoma, oil field chainhand in Louisiana, roustabout in the Gulf of Mexico, English instructor in North Carolina, and Director of Computer-Aided Instruction at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Academically, he holds Master’s of Arts in English degrees in Creative Writing and Composition & Rhetoric, has been honored for outstanding teaching, and presented at national and international conferences on the subject of computer pedagogy. In addition, he has earned Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Advanced Certified Novell Administrator computer certifications.

Now retired, his motorcycle and hang glider long since sold. His pilot's license expired. He no longer restores pinball machines, skydives, scubas, sails, or paints. He has forgotten how to play the bagpipe. His didgeridoo sits idle. He was once removed by the director from a part in his own stage play, but that has not discouraged him from continuing to write. He has written short stories, plays, and screenplays, but favors poetry.

He lives on the side of a volcano in the Republic of Panamá

Reviews

[Serlina Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful Verses

This book is filled with amazing pieces that tells you a story of nature. The view, the love, everything is better with nature. Easy read, can easily connect and visualize what the author is speaking about.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

I write about death, love, rain, war, memories, other authors, rainbows in the tropics--whatever moves me. Some people feel that my writing is too eclectic and that they are not sure what they are getting when they read my books. Therefore, I created this volume of my poetry under the umbrella of Nature. I have always written about the nature surrounding me and I've been fortunate enough to live in a variety of lovely natural settings.

My tetralogy of themed poetry books is now complete with: "War," "Nature," "Love," and "Death."

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

I write about death, love, rain, war, memories, other authors, rainbows in the tropics--whatever moves me. Some people feel that my writing is too eclectic and that they are not sure what they are getting when they read my books. Therefore, I created this volume of my poetry under the umbrella of Nature. I have always written about the nature surrounding me and I've been fortunate enough to live in a variety of lovely natural settings.

My tetralogy of themed poetry books is now complete with: "War," "Nature," "Love," and "Death."