| Almost by John F Taylor Your passionate Eyes Deny me words Your slender Arms Push me away Without Movement Your satin hands Caress my dreams Your silken lips So close I can taste The fire That can't be Tamed |
About John Frank Taylor:
John Frank Taylor’s self-proclaimed assault on the literary world can be traced back to his birth October 14, 1971.
Taylor ’s upbringing was greatly influenced by his “poor, middle-class, white trash upbringing.” He’s lived most of
his life in the culturally impaired climate of Santee . Taylor ’s artistic blossoming came to fruition in Room 503 of
Santana High School in ‘87-‘88. “I began writing my senior year, where I was able to make contact with my friend-
teacher-mentor, Michael McLarty . He helped me to see that there was a poet, and more importantly, a human that
had something to say inside of me. All it takes to be a poet is to have something to say,” Taylor says.
Since that time he’s focused most of his artistic energies into his poetry. In the past few years, he has
written nearly One thousand poems and several short stories as well as Plays and screenplays. He’s also been
published numerous times on the World Wide Web at such sites as Junkyard Press, Quantum Muse, Free-verse,
as well as others. Taylor has Self-Published three books to date and is currently working on a novel. He describes
his poems as “emotional tangents with a bit of social commentary thrown in for good measure. They’re me, all the
good and bad rolled up into one; usually more of the bad,” Taylor laughs.
You may visit his website @ www.johnftaylor.wordpress.com
John Frank Taylor’s self-proclaimed assault on the literary world can be traced back to his birth October 14, 1971.
Taylor ’s upbringing was greatly influenced by his “poor, middle-class, white trash upbringing.” He’s lived most of
his life in the culturally impaired climate of Santee . Taylor ’s artistic blossoming came to fruition in Room 503 of
Santana High School in ‘87-‘88. “I began writing my senior year, where I was able to make contact with my friend-
teacher-mentor, Michael McLarty . He helped me to see that there was a poet, and more importantly, a human that
had something to say inside of me. All it takes to be a poet is to have something to say,” Taylor says.
Since that time he’s focused most of his artistic energies into his poetry. In the past few years, he has
written nearly One thousand poems and several short stories as well as Plays and screenplays. He’s also been
published numerous times on the World Wide Web at such sites as Junkyard Press, Quantum Muse, Free-verse,
as well as others. Taylor has Self-Published three books to date and is currently working on a novel. He describes
his poems as “emotional tangents with a bit of social commentary thrown in for good measure. They’re me, all the
good and bad rolled up into one; usually more of the bad,” Taylor laughs.
You may visit his website @ www.johnftaylor.wordpress.com
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