First Blog

This is my very first attempt at a blog. I am an amateur poet - the old school kind that uses rhythm and rhyme in my poetry. I write when something moves me; sometimes that means several poems a day or one or two poems in a week. I will publish a lot of my poems from this past year and those that I write from here on out on this site. If you like any thing you read, please share the website with friends. I love to get feedback on what I write.

Mike

Amateur Poet

I’m just an amateur poet
I write down things that I think
Some people think I’m insightful
Some people think that I stink
I’ve never had formal training
I’d probably flunk if I did
I just write what I see all around me
And I write to harass and to kid
I don’t take myself all that serious
And my poetry’s often uncouth
But in every poem that I write out
There is always a small grain of truth
It may not be from your perspective
It may not be just how you feel
But to see things from some other angle
Helps to determine what’s real
So I may be an amateur poet
And write with a tongue-in-cheek wink
But I hope that when you read my poems
It leads you to pause some and think

Mdailey
02/19/09