Montage created by Lloyd's Son
(used with permission)
LLOYD EDWIN LAWRENCE, Sr
- A Hallowed Spot
- A Purple Heart
- Amazing Thing
- Excerpts from Boney TeenHobo
- Fair to Middlin'
- He Was Only Six
- Her Sons
- Menopast
- PTSD and Me
- Science is a Blast
- That Place Below
- The Battle Cry
- The Last Muster
- The Runs of the Luge
- There's a Fungus Among Us
- Viet Nam Vet
- Why Them
Lloyd, a Korean Combat Veteran (1952-1953) found the art of Classical English Poetry while battling Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The cancer required Chemotherapy and radiation, which caused a great depression to befall him. He has been in remission for over ten years now, which amounts to a cure.
In an effort to stay busy, he started to write Roses Are Red style poetry. His lovely wife, seeing the need for a rhyming dictionary, bought one for him. The first 32 pages contained a tutorial section. Lloyd being an Engineer with a proclivity for the empirical immediately saw the science in the art. "I can do this." was the conclusion he came to. Many friends and family members agree and have encouraged him to publish over the years.
The entrepreneurial spirit has kept him busy in high technology.
With ten grown children and over two score grandchildren to think about at Christmas, he decided to self-publish his first work. "JungleBerry Poetry™. Favorites Edition", is a selection of more than one hundred from the multiple hundreds of poems Lloyd has written. The selections include a broad potpourri of Humor, 1940s Childhood Nostalgia, Philosophy and other works. Memories of a horrific childhood are manifested in poems like, "The Runaway" and The "Electric Chair."
Lloyd has written many of his poems in the third person reflecting the interesting "Best of Times... Worst of Times" life experience that has brought him to nearly seventy years of age.
Lloyd sees Classical forms as templates that assure a poem will sing well and uses poetry as a story-telling vehicle. His Children's Poetry is extremely well done. Themes are present such as "Never Talk To Strangers" Told about Bad Wolf Gray and Kiddy Lamb.
Paul Harvey told a story about the author of "Amazing Grace" on the popular radio program "The Rest of The Story." Lloyd heard it and it gave birth to "Amazing Thing."; a sonnet, about the Ship Captain who forsook the life of a Slaver after going below ship and seeing what a wretch he had become.