https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gerontian1502/This journal will chronicle my insights and progress as I re-discover the art and crafting of poetry. Poets are often urged by the cognoscenti to journal, and who am I to say otherwise. I imagine it will be part travel log, part cookbook (I love to cook), and part diatribe about life in general. I hope I find humor as well as poetic ideas as I search for metaphors and magic.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gerontian1502/691547Today is a small triumph for me. I managed to write a new poem. Yesterday, I spoke of inspiration. Today, inspiration came from watching a movie. Yet I had important choices to make about this poem, before I even started. You see, I have a long history with ballet and with Swan Lake, in...https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gerontian1502/691488I want to thank the folks who have left comments. I still get a bit confused navigating this site, and cannot seem to remember names terribly well. I will improve. I hope to visit more blogs, especially those written by folks who have visited my two blogs and left such kind comments. Inspiration....https://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Gerontian1502/691394Friedrich Nietzsche wrote this line in his book, The Will to Power." I recalled this particular line because today I literally became a kind of burnt offering. Specifically, a surgeon burned my bottom with some ghastly acid or other in order to treat some kind of cyst that usually affects men...