INTERNET ATTRACTION
WITH SELECTED POEMS
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SHE WROTE ME first when she said, “It is very important for me to find a man who has your abilities and your feelings for the women of this World. When, I read your Facebook Profile, I knew that you might very well be that special person for me. So, I ask you, “Can we become better friends? I want to get to know you better if that is possible and if you are willing to take the time that will allow us to become better friends or, should I say, the best of two close friends for each other’s private pleasure.” Her first E-mail arrived at a time when I was drowning in my own sorrow about my dear wife’s departure because of ovarian cancer in 2010. She mentioned that she was still grieving the tragic loss of her husband as the result of an awful car accident which happened three years previously. So, at the beginning of our mutual discovery of each other, we were on common ground as both a widow and a widower. It seemed somehow appropriate that we would be ideal pen pals when it came to our common grief and the recovery process there from. I was a prime candidate to help her and, likewise, she was a superb choice to help me with my own pain. Pain had united us and, through additional pain, we would one day part. But, until our break up time occurs, I pleaded for continuance of our connection. I had a few years left and I wanted to share them with both her and her daughter, Ruby. My first attempt at poetry for my dear Belinda was structured around my own feelings and I prayed that she would approve and accept my sincere words to her which were written for her and her alone. One has to begin somewhere and, for the two of us, I began with these heartfelt words about my own sentiments. Enticement, desire and yearning Has left me with a controlled aching. Enjoyment, wonderment and fright Were within me both day and night. My special person has been revealed For many years, she has been concealed. But, now our souls are entwined as one To be this way until we are done. She replied to me that she was not yet assured. She asked me for more information regarding my stability. I assumed that she wondered how well I weathered our tropical storms so I wrote her back the following: During the strongest of all those tropical winds I stood rigid and erect without any rescinds. I was thinking of the high seas that you plowed Going beyond every threatening, angry cloud. Worried if you would make it safely to a port Knowing that your mission was never one to abort. Leaving me with the idea that you are the best At what you do and far better than all the rest.
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This short, short work of fiction and forty love poems that are attached are each dedicated to those men and women who are prone to search for their companions as common law lovers via the World Wide Web. This may work for some people, but it didn’t work for me. And it’s my opinion that there are many more effective ways to locate a soul mate. For example, most people need to look inside of their own church for their best choice.
About the Author
Charles Hays was born in Hazard, Kentucky, in 1932. He grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and was reared by his parents, Courtney Kash Hays and Sallie Anne Hays. Courtney Hays was a coal tower engineer for the L&N Railroad, and Sallie Hays was a graduate of Lees College as an accredited schoolteacher. Hays attended the Hazard City School System at the time when it was rated as one of the top ten educational organizations in the State of Kentucky. His final education was at the University of Kentucky where he earned three degrees in Metallurgical Engineering, BS, MS, and PhD. His minor was in bioengineering and statistics. Charles spent three years in the US Army—a year in Virginia, a year in Germany, and a year in France. His duty was to help make certain that the Great War was finally over and that occasional uprisings by the Nazis were properly subdued. He played one baseball season while in France where his team became the league champion at Ingrandes, France. Later, he taught as an associate professor at three major universities, the University of Kentucky, Texas A&M University, and the University of Houston. He has more than one hundred refereed papers, patents, and presentations. For five years, he was editor in chief for an adjudicated scientific magazine entitled Metallography: An International Journal. His consulting company, Hays Metallurgical, has consulted for all major oil and gas companies in Houston and abroad, primarily, for the North Sea Arena. At one time, he was considered to be the highest-paid consultant in the nation. As a result, he became an internationally known expert on oil and gas problems. Dr. Hays has strung columns, operated a linotype machine, run print jobs, and proofread galley slugs for the Hazard Daily Herald. When he was six, his mother bought him a 1929 Remington portable typewriter. And between the ages eight to eighteen, he wrote stories, covered the local news, and wrote about the Perry County Courtroom proceedings. On a higher level of journalism, Charles has strung columns, written for magazines, and published books. When we asked him what his greatest engineering achievement was, he said that it occurred at NASA-Huntsville when the Saturn V first-stage missile had severe cracking problems. He was personally responsible for the solution of that problem. And experts say that the Moon Project would have failed without his wise input. At this time, Charles is retired, and he lives in Pearland, Texas, where he continues to write his books and stories.