Poetic Escape

About the Book

An anthology of poems touching on several of the most important human emotions not the least of which is a desire to escape the pressures we all face each day even if only for a short while. With the exception of the Limericks, most of these works are written in quatrain. This is the author´s favorite form of verse and is an easy form to read and is very effective in making a statement. The author has attempted to touch on as many human emotions as he could. You are sure to find some of these works amusing so that takes care of humor and laughter. The word Pathos as appearing in this collection serves our very human need to feel pity, sympathy and compassion. As you read some of these ballads you can look forward to a sudden rush of ecstatic joy just as you felt at your own wedding and just as you felt at the wedding of your beloved daughter or son that brought those tears of joy; or perhaps as you felt at the birth of your very first grandchild. Or how about the time you got your first kiss? Remember that rush of adrenaline and how scared you were before the happiness took over from the fear as your lips tenderly clung and your heart felt like it was going to swell up and burst right out of your body. Now last but certainly not least there is sadness. This is probably the most important and necessary emotion you will ever feel. We make the journey through this life by making comparisons so if we had never experienced sadness how would we know how to recoghize joy?

About the Author

Mr. Fox has certainly led a most interesting life. He has been a policeman, a fireman, a logger, a newspaper reporter, a short story writer, a novelist and other ventures into the journalistic field. But during those days the urge to write poetry never left him and for several years his verses were distributed in wall hanging scroll form in freeway restaurants and gift shops and were very well received. Mr. Fox’s favorite form of poetry is Quatrain although he admits to a weakness for Limericks and the particular style of humor they express. His book of poetry, Poetic Escape, was published recently. Mr. Fox was born on July 20, 1920, and grew up in the great Willamette Valley of Oregon and lived there all of his life with the exception of a few brief stays in other states. Mr. Clayton Hobart Fox died on October 28, 2008, one day after he gave his final approval for the cover design and the inside format of this book.