Welcome to two new members.

This is a surprise. This group has been very quiet for a couple of
years and now people are joining in 2004.

I'm sure I and the other members would like to know something about
each other and why we are interested in poetry.

I'll start. I enjoy poetry but I'm old-fashioned. I like classic
poets such as Shelley, Keats and Shakespeare's sonnets.

I write rhyming couplets and limericks. I can't post the limericks
here because they are like most limericks - rude.

I have had some feedback on some of my poems which are in the files
and elsewhere on the internet. The general response has been
anonymous and assures me that I am not, and never will be, a poet.
I'll keep trying.

My next poem will be entered in a local writing competition. After
the closing date I'll put it in the files. It has to be 'unpublished'
to enter and putting it on the net is a sort of 'publishing'.

Please share any of your poems with us, or poems by others that you
like.

R J C Eburne
Moderator.