How do you write poetry?

[Erthona]

"i am glad i am not the only smoker left on the planet. also, this is the kind of thing that will keep me awake at night, i meant 'frenetic' and not 'frantic'."

I would still be smoking if I wouldn't be dead after the first day. It's great for focusing the mind. Most of the worlds great literature was enabled by some form of chemical and little written au' naturel, even if it was only strongly brewed brewed coffee.

Billy, I think what you say goes without saying. Of what we might call the "Great Poets", how many great poems have they written. Coleridge, who I consider in the top few wrote three great poems, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel". Writing a great, or a decent poem in our case is more a fluke than anything else. To take the satire of the Bard as reality, "greatness is thrust upon us." So just don't be showing your cross garters to the wrong gurl and I think things will be fine (I hear Ella is fond of yellow and green).

Hi Shem, good to see you again.

dale