What is this?

     This is a blog.  Obviously.  But what it is specifically is a blog that contains poetry.  Because there are thousands of those on the internet these days, I will try to be even more specific.  It is a blog containing poetry from poets who are dead and gone, alive and well, happy, sad (but mostly sad) and other things that I do not care to mention here.  Because that concept is most likely not very original, I will describe in detail what I hope will happen on this blog.

     I want this to be a conversation.  Let's talk.  Let's talk about these poems that I carefully choose to put here for you to see.  I want to talk to you.

     First, I will say my thoughts on the particular poem of the day, then I want to hear what you have to say.  I know I might not get too many people talking at first, but don't let that be a deterrent.  If this is a conversation between two people, so be it.  That will give me (and hopefully you) greater joy than not having spoken about these works of art at all.

     I think I will start off with a post a day for 30 days.  Then I might slow down.  Or I might not.  We'll see, I suppose.  It most likely depends entirely on you.

     Thank you for reading my first post, and now let's get started.