Member Introduction

**MasterPoet** · Subject: Member Introduction Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:43 pm

My Introduction
I compose this introduction for all of the wonderful people
whom visit this blog and for all who come in and read
my creative words of art and leave a little of
themselves through their comments. Its both my pleasure and
honor to do this for so many wonderful readers that
enjoy and love the works of creative people.

I
introduce myself as a world-renowned poet with poems
published in various books. I was born in Springfield,
Illinois and moved to Mountain Country at age three.
I live in the Rocky Mountains and love the natural
setting of the high mountain country. I had always
been an active writer of short stories until I met
a very special girl who found the gift of poetry
within me and brought it out to be shared with
the world.

I have just gained a writers place
in the romance novel industry as my first novel has
now been published and made available in May 2007 at
Barnes & Noble and Amazon titled Romantic/Sensual
Encounters by Mickey Pig Knuckles, (Writers Name).
I have two brothers, one sister and many nephews
and nieces. I have always been in tune with my
emotional being. Many say I am sensitive to life’s ups
and downs.

Each day is a new beginning and should
be lived to the fullest. One should always strive to
make the best of life; we are only given one life
to live. I strive to reach out to the world and
share my passion for poetry in hopes of enkindling
warm smiles. There is nothing more inspiring than
daily life; life is poetry in motion.

I write on a
variety of topics, so there is something for everyone
to savor. I hope you enjoy my creative writing style
as my poetry flows from my heart to yours.
I work in Law Enforcement and write to stay in
touch with my emotional being. I have also worked as a succesful
Locksmith for many years. I will now include some of
my feelings towards those that may work in the field
of Law Enforcement.

Correctional Officers

What would the average citizen say if it were proposed
that police officers be assigned to a neighborhood which
was totally inhabited by no one but criminals and those
officers would be unarmed, patrol on foot, and be heavily out
numbered? I would venture to say that the overwhelming
public response would be that the officers would have to
be completely crazy to accept such an assignment or make
such a career choice. However, as you read this, such
a scenario is being played out in all areas of our
great country.

Federal and state Correctional Officers,
not guards, which is a person watching school crossings,
or walking the hallways of many schools and hospitals,
and our malls as guards. Correctional Officers work in
Correctional Facilities, empowered by the federal and
state to enforce its laws and the rules and regulations
of the Department of Corrections, in short, Law
Enforcement Officers.

Our daily beat is totally inhabited by convicted felons,
who, by definition, are people who tend to break the laws,
rules, and regulations of our society. Correctional
Officers are outnumbered by a ratio of 100 to 1 or more
in some cases during the average workday, and contrary to
popular belief, we work without sidearms. Yes, our necks
are on the line every minute of our work day. A correctional
facility is a very misunderstood environment.

The average
person has little knowledge of it's workings. Society sends
it's criminals to correctional facilities and as time passes,
each criminal's crime fades from our memory until the
collective prison population becomes a vision of hordes of
bad people being warehoused away from decent people where
they can cause no further harm to society. There is also
a notion that prison inmates cease to be a problem when
they are incarcerated.

Correctional facilities are packed full of violence
perpetrated by the prison population against each other and
the facility staff. Felonies are committed daily but they
are called "incidents' and rarely result in public prosecution.
Discipline is handled internally and, as a rule, the public
is never informed of these internal crimes.

In the
course if maintaining order in these facilities many
officers have been punched or kicked, bitten, stabbed,
slashed with homemade weapons, taken hostage and even
murdered in the line of duty, while being legally
mandated to maintain their professional composure
and refrain from any and all retaliation.

In
addition to these obvious dangers, correctional officers face
hidden dangers in the form of AIDS, tuberculosis,
hepatitis B and hepatitis C. The courts are now imposing
longer sentences and the prison population is increasing far
beyond the systems designed capacity. As the public demands
more police on the streets, governments everywhere are
handcuffing police in prisons where violence reigns
supreme, jeopardizing those officers behind these prison
walls.

Although you will never see us on "Cops," or
"Real Stories" we are law enforcement professionals.
The forgotten cop, hidden from view. ( except for the 1% or
less who make the news-our counterparts know how that works
when someone goes bad or something goes extremely wrong),
doing thankless duty on the worlds most dangerous beat,
hoping someday to receive respect and approval from the
public whom we sincerely serve to protect and keep safe
from these criminal's of crime.

I want to dedicate this to all who have served and have a
place in your heart for the work that must be done.
Thank You for reading this and understanding that we are
people too and want to protect free society from these
evil people.

I hope you may enjoy my introduction as I now close with
the wonderful thought of gaining many wonderful creative friends.

MPK

**Tears of Roses** · Subject: Re: Member Introduction Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:13 pm

Welcome Mickey I hope you find a small be piece of happiness here in our little poetry corner.
So true a job very few would ever concern taking much less really being a officer. I'm sure ever one is happy that we have officers that are willing to wall that path.
Roses to you
Water Rose

Teresa

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Smiles Chase away the Tears