About the Book

This book of poems is meant for everyone, although some of the poems are written primarily for children.  These are interspersed with other poems some of which, it is expected, will be better comprehended by mature readers. 

It is the author’s sincere desire that the reader be as enthused by the contents of this book as he, the author, was in writing it.

About the Author

Robert Goodwin Olmsted was born in Manchester, Connecticut where he completed highschool thereafter to study at Lehigh University, Hartford Art School; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Boston and U.V.M.  He has held a myriad of jobs of sundry sorts while traveling about the country and rendering portraits periodically as well as other realistic and abstract art to make a living.  He has been hospitalized for mental illness but is now in good health.  Late in his artistic career the author became interested in painting pictures and representing ideas with words rather than brush strokes.  The last few years have been devoted in part to the occupation of writing poems, some of which are presented in this book