John Alan Negich

My Life in Rhymes John Alan Negich

My Life in Rhymes is a collection of poems, musings and songs. Poetry has been described as a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way. It is characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter: a unit of measure or a pattern of beats, metaphor: a figure of speech which is not literal, and rhyme: corresponding sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry. Robert Frost simplified the definition of poetry by saying "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." My Life in Rhymes documents, in poetic form, my life story and my emotions, in which I have indeed, found thought, and with the words that I found to express that thought, I hope will take the reader on a journey through the many aspects of this man's very existence with me as the guide.