Editor's note: Clyde Alan Hensley is a local songwriter, performer and poet. Shoebox I stumbled upon a shoebox, full of pictures and memories. I dubbed them confessions of my life.Still frames in black and white ... people who touched my very soul.Some good and some not as much. Nonetheless...each bestowed a lesson. Words on faded paper, where the ink no … [Read more...]
Featured Poetry: ‘Spent’
Clyde Alan Hensley is a local singer songwriter performing in Northeast Ohio. He has received airplay on 91.3 FM (Rock and Recovery) Black Squirrel radio in Kent, Dr.Rocks Medicine Show, WECL FM (in Pa) and WHIV FM in Louisiana, among other radio and internet stations. Currently finishing up a new CD, he’s also working on a body of poetry. “Spent” visits a person who has given … [Read more...]
From the tent to the tabernacle
One man's journey out of homelessness (Editor's note: this story originally appeared in the Akron Area Eutopia Report.) My name is Clyde Alan Hensley. I am proof that God is in the business of miracles. I drank myself into homelessness in 2009. I had burned every bridge and opportunity of redemption with family and friends. All I had left was an addiction, the clothes on my … [Read more...]