Over the Years

About the Book

Over the years is a collection of poems written in four different countries in two different continents between the years of 1993 and 2000. Due to the subject matter, the collection could also be subtitled War, Poverty, Life and Love.

Two poems were composed virtually on the same day, as the residue of anarchy and war crystallized into thought-provoking moments. Poverty, an ugly part of man’s destiny, continues to baffl e and embarrass humanity, especially when it exists in the midst of plenty.

As two themes, love and nature, tend to walk hand in hand, the middle of February gave me the right time to express heartfelt sentiments related to both. Likewise, in some verses, life and love are inextricably connected as food for thought.

I hope readers will join me in this emotional journey – from the painful fi rst hand witness of anarchy and wanton destruction, through joy in simply living and loving, to exhilaration in nature’s rich and beautiful bounty.

About the Author

Louis Bankole Jones was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in West Africa. He studied pre-clinical medicine at the University of Heidelberg Germany and graduated with an M.B.chB. from the University of Sierra Leone. He is also ECFMG-certified MD in the USA. Dr. Jones immigrated to the US as a refugee from Conakry, Guinea in 1999 following a rebel incursion into Freetown at the height of the civil war in Sierra Leone. He lives with his wife and son in South Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a keen tennis player, follows international cricket and soccer, and enjoys reading fiction.