Gregory
@SkyBlueHunter
Freedom, PA USA
Joined Sep 9, 2011
I sprang from humble beginnings. I was born into poverty in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, to a part-time preacher and grocery store clerk father, and a “spare the rod, spoil the child” preaching mother. Due to my father’s love of reading, I luckily became a life-long student, yearning to learn and experience new things. I try to channel these life experiences into my writing.
My profession is in nuclear engineering, joining the US Navy at an early age and volunteering for submarines during the waning years of the Cold War. It was on those long patrols beneath the waves of the Atlantic that I first started writing poetry and questioning what the hell we as a society were doing these weapons.
I currently reside near Pittsburgh and am in charge of training the “test pilots” for the newest generation of nuclear plants. My leisure time, what little I have anymore, is filled by writing poetry and playing music. In 1993 I had a country songs, 'Train to Nashville' and 'Rising Sun' that played on a few hundred radio stations across the US.
My favorite song lyric is from a 1960's group known as The Covens:
Go ahead and hate your neighbor
Go ahead and cheat a friend
But do it in the name of heaven
You can justify it in the end
My favorite poetic verse is from W.E. Henley's 'Invictus':
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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