Wet Behind the Ears: Poems by Brian K. Smith

By Brian K. Smith

In 2004, The New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVIII and the CIA admitted that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Facebook was founded at Cambridge, Massachusetts and Scientists in South Korea announced the cloning of 30 human embryos. The last coal mine in France closed, ending nearly 300 years of coal mining and the last Oldsmobile rolls off of the assembly line. In North Korea mobile phones were banned and Terry Nichols was convicted by an Oklahoma state court on murder charges stemming from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. In that year, the National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC and thousands of people in Hong Kong took to the streets to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Preliminary hearings began in Iraq in the trial of former president Saddam Hussein, for war crimes and crimes against humanity and Lance Armstrong of Austin, Texas won an unprecedented 6th consecutive Tour de France cycling title.
The 2004 Summer Olympics were held in Athens and the TV series Lost aired its pilot.
On December 26, 2004, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hit Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hit the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generated enormous tsunami waves that crashed into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.
It had been nine years since my last book, and I was married with two kids. Life was busy and I had only written on rare occasions until one day I was inspired to sit down and the words began to flow for weeks. I put together my third book of poems. Some were old ones that I had stuffed in a box and some were new. I had not picked up my pencil in a few years and I was rusty. You might say I was still a little Wet Behind The Ears.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 7, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453515044

Brian K. Smith

Brian K. Smith graduated from College Of The Mainland on a Journalism scholarship. While attending College Of The Mainland he served as Vice President of the Phi Theta Kappa. He also attended University of Houston at Clear Lake, pursuing an English degree. He was editor of his college newspaper and was known for his editorial cartoons. Brian received awards from the La Marque, Houston and Galveston press associations. He was also published in a collection of works with Vassar Miller, a Pulitzer Prize winner. Brian is also working on another book of poetry, a children’s book, and a novel. This is Brian’s sixth book of poetry

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