Qutbuddin Loren Ruh Smith is a Poet and Gardener who first began writing poetry when working in aerospace and computer science. He has always been close to Nature. He was born and ...view moreQutbuddin Loren Ruh Smith is a Poet and Gardener who first began writing poetry when working in aerospace and computer science. He has always been close to Nature. He was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, spent high school years in Arcata on California’s North Coast and has been living in the Foothills of the Sierra Nevada Range of Light for the last 30 years. He now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This Child & His Tree is a collection of poetry and poetic essays that reflect his experience of going deep into his own interior beingness by exploring his family tree and his place in it. They include The Father Poems about his relationship with his own father, My Poems about himself as a man, husband and father, Lory’s Tears & Laughter about discovering his inner child and This Tree & Me about the core and branches of his ancestral tree.view less