Laurence G. Freeman

The books did not start out as books. I had not written anything since high school (love poems for the girl who became my wife). On our 25th anniversary, September 2007, part of what I did for her was to compose a poem, print it on purple paper and place it inside a silver frame. After looking at it on the wall for several months, she urged me to start writing again.

During the summer of 2008 I could no longer spend my lunch hours driving around town with gas reaching $4 gallon. So, my time was spent sitting at Whataburger, accompanied by a red bic cristal pen and spiral notebook (later replaced with a beautiful portfolio case and appropriate pen given by my Mother for Christmas).

Once I started, the poems poured out of my brain onto paper. All types of images transferred into all types of writings in a variety of styles. Poems ranging from childish to love to family to nature to patriotic to sorrow and loss to my thoughts of the vast unkown. As each one was written, I would print it out through my Printshop program with a picture that represented the basic idea of that poem. As the pile of poetry papers kept growing, my wife decided to start putting them in a binder.

By Christmas, we had about 120+ poems written. That's when we decided to publish the work so we could share my visions with friends and family.

"Sliding Down A Rainbow" is the first installment consisting of 52 poems arranged into six chapters revolving around the many facets of life and beyond, including the 25th anniversary poem written for my wife - the poem responsible for reigniting the poetic fire that produced all of this work.

The 24 mature poems and 12 limericks set aside from the original body of work have been published under the title "Slide Over The Rainbow's Edge….Into The Night" - this work is not for the younger audience.

The third book, "Rainbow Revelations", contains the balance of my work which is a total of 87 poems printed on 254 pages. Originally the material contained within these pages was to be two books. However, I decided to publish them in one book since the added cost of printing a larger volume was minimal.

After all of the experience gained from publishing my work in three separate books, I was finally able to achieve the dream of having all my work available in a single volume which I titled "Pebbles in the Brazos". This provides the proper depth and scope to my work; everything in one publication as originally intended. However, be advised, it contains some mature content which should not be shared with younger readers. Skip over those pages until you have some private time to enjoy them.

To have my work published and available for anyone/everyone is a thrilling experience. Thank you to my wife and soul mate, Lisa, the little girl who stole my heart and gave it wings so it could circle the heavens alongside hers.

Now, get a copy of my work, sit back, relax and enjoy my symphony of life!