Broken Down Palace; The Poems: A collection of poetry and song lyrics

This collection of poetry was written in my first apartment (a rundown hovel chopped into small apartments) near the University of Minnesota. It began during the winter of 1967 when I had just started working at KTCA public television. It finally tapered out around the spring of 1970.

I had just come back from a self-imposed exile to Europe to find myself. That lasted about six months before snow and freezing temperatures dragged my defeated soul back to Minnesota. With a regular day job as a writer at the Minnesota Department of Public Health and a part-time (free) gig every evening at the television station, I was finally beginning to find my footing.

I was writing on the side and drifting through relationships searching for what I didn't know. The poetry and song lyrics came easily as I tried to express in words the jumble of emotions surging through my head most days. It started to dissipate when I found the one and began to get more focused on her and our future together.

This is just a small compilation of numerous tablets of poetry and song lyrics that I wrote before setting them aside for fifty plus years.

Perhaps it's time to set them free.