http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PoetsChallengeChallengedPoet/My attempts at being a poet. It's fun, it's exercise for the brain and it's challenging. I try to include everything from politics to sports to nature. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. Hope you enjoy!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PoetsChallengeChallengedPoet/504398I have decided to repost my poem from April 6, 2004. This poem holds the most special place in my heart about my daughter Elizabeth. I hope you understand that I have many thanks to give on this Thanksgiving Day 2007. God's Gift Years of trying, hoping, praying God's gift bestowed the beautiful...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PoetsChallengeChallengedPoet/115649Years of trying, hoping, praying God's gift bestowed the beautiful daughter As six full moons were spent in pride and happiness the time had too soon come to trust another The beautiful daughter's future so bright was stolen, being shaken by a caregiver The unjust trial marred by tampering freed...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/PoetsChallengeChallengedPoet/113567The new trees were hoisted to their vernal home near the verge of a ditch where the roots could roam The shovel struck with veracious precision as grass broke away from earth in valediction The vacant hole revealed vermin seemingly in vex disorder, chaos as the planter reacts in a venial reflex...