The idea for (Book titled) “Word Colors” came to me back in the late Seventies when I still (at that time) was caught between being an artist/painter or a poet/writer. So I eventually chose to write and utilize my (lifelong) study of words (etymology, linguistics and derivations, i.e, “from Greek”, “from Latin,” etc.) to where I began blending and accenting, via word spellings, into more Colorful and, say, Embellished new words, i.e, accenting words within words as a new form of word play. As if to say in “OTHER WORDS” to ENTERTAIN in my poetry rather than to develop the too usual waxing philosophical OTHER than what the theme of the poem ITSELF might evolve to or emit au natural.
