I have written poetry since I have been maybe 13 or 14 years old, at first it was usually humorous, limericks, or silly rhymes……..i can remember in 9^th grade really going to bat with an English teacher who gave me a very low grade on a poem about valentines day because he wanted romantic and I gave him hell on a stick………it was the best “poem” in the class but it didn’t fit his sexual/romantic vision of a valentines poem so I got a low mark……..which I didn’t really care about…….i only wanted it accepted as a good poem…………

I write randomly…..not because I only feel the presents of the muse at random intervals but because quite frankly I forget that the trollie knows how to write poetry…………

Senior year in HS the supposed poet laureate of the class was commissioned to write a poem for the year book, well the dead line was upon the year book staff and no poem was forth coming so with a few hours to go the year book advisor suggested me ( he had been my 11^th grade English teacher and I shock the hell out of him because the weirdo wrote poetry…….he suggested that they talk to me about it, and I sat down and wrote an appropriate piece in like 25 minutes, basically the worst piece of shit I ever wrote, sappy……sugary…….and total a piece of crap and they loved it………just proves that even a good poet can write for the masses when necessary………..but I digress…………it’s not a case of the muse being fickle…….i just forget that I can write poetry…………..well anywho I’ve post 3 new poems to my poetry blog tonight and In the mood I’m in more might be forthcoming………..link is over on the right there……….if you care………and frankly I don’t care if you do or you don’t