Who I am

Thank you for your compliment. Sometimes I "force" my government students to write a poem about government. I have them do an acrostic poem with the words United States Congress. Yes I know it makes for a long poem and yet somehow they suffer through it. :) I will have a great summer. I am heading to Montana to see my son!

We will be gone a couple of weeks at the beginning of July.

That is wonderful, Montana in the summertime, I hope it is not as HOT as it is here in Texas and you don't stay away from myLot too long, since you would be sorely missed!!

Thank you for the compliment. I found that writing an acrostic poem is an easy way to start a poem if you have writer's block. I have also written down topics for poems I would like to write.

Thank you so much for your kind remarks. I never thought of it as a present.

Thanks for the poem Leah! I can't believe that you are annoying or alien.

I'm still not buying the annoying part but if you say so ok.

Oh, I can be annoying. I have a terrible time remembering things, I'll get so focused on some task that if there is something I'm not used to seeing in the way (say a soda can on the pillow case while I'm straightening a bed) I just won't see it. And, my nickname is "The Alien." I kid you not, I have so many food allergies that my friends swear I must be part alien.

Thank you for the compliment and the poem! And to say I am divine, Wow! :D

Sorry Craftcatcher, I was so mesmerized by the fact that you called me divine that my head was in the clouds and my manners just went out the window. LOL!

Oh darn I called you divine and you didn't even call me by name. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you! LOL!

Yes, it is called an acrostic poem. I would love to read your acrostic poem.

I believe that everyone can write a poem once they have been given the skills to do it.

Thank you for reading my poem. I don't have a photo for this poem but you may picture the poem in your mind and that will be the photo for this poem.

Thank you for the compliment. You should continue writing poetry. I wrote some poetry in high school but not very much in college. After I got out of college I started writing more. I enjoy it as an outlet and it is good practice for my brain. So, keep writing poetry when the spirit moves you.

Thank you for your analysis. I find my self odd because I do not fit into anyones mold. I know that I am odd/weird sometimes and I like that. Even my kids think that I am weird sometimes. That is who I am. Reality checks. I check to see if I am real and the things around me are real and that I am not insane or going crazy. It is an abstract type of poem. I have actually started to continue the poem to include my middle and last name. I may post it when I finish it.

Thank you for the comment and the explanations given. Finish that poem and bring it to light through mylot. I eagerly wait to read it. Thank you once again, my friend.

Thank you Sweetsue for the compliment. I found that I get better at writing poetry by practicing. I have also read many books on poetry and they give me ideas for poems. Good luck and keep trying.

I am glad that you enjoyed this poem. From the response, I will post more of my poems.

Well I started by writing my name vertically on a sheet of lined paper. Then I thought of different characteristics or attributes about myself that started with each of the different letters in my name, like Gregarious for G. For R I could not think of any characteristic but Razor came to mind because I shave. I also like to put color words in my poems when I think they will fit. The E was easy, Egotistical. I think everyone is a little egotistical and that is why I used that word. The next G, Gargantuan was also easy. I am 6'2" and 295 pounds so I am not a little guy but gargantuan. :) The O was again easy because sometimes I am odd in the things I do or the way I do them. Even my own kids think I am weird or odd sometimes. Again I had another R and I didn't know what to do with it. So since I said I was Odd in the previous line I thought that someone who is odd might need to make reality checks, in other words make sure he was living in the real world. The Y was also difficult but I found that the word Yet would fit in because I wanted people to know that even though I am odd yet I am a sane person. The red Kool-aid was just to add color. The poem makes sense and yet it doesn't. That is what I like about it. I hope this has helped you write some poems. You do not have to use your name if you do not want to. You can use acrostics with other words also besides your name.

I bought a paperback rhyming dictionary which helps you find words that rhyme with a word you are using in your poem. I have found it to be extremely helpful. Of, a poem does not have to rhyme.

Thank you so much for the hints you gave. Am not very smart in terms of thinking and coming up with words that rythms or that relates to each other. Maybe I will try it, I know somehow I can, these a spirit within telling me I just can do it. Thanks, I'll share one of things days.God bless!

Thank you for your compliment. The poem is just expressing who I am as an individual. You are right I do live happily.