I shall add my own comments to theirs. You can take it or leave it - I'm not an established poet or a famous literary critic. You have to start somewhere and sometime. The important thing is to keep writing and to keep reviewing what one writes. If it doesn't come right at first, put it away for a while.
Poetry is about real emotions, insights, visions, understandings, experiences.
Young people are exploring these all the time as they mature - or should be in my view. Readers of the pages of your poems do not expect you to be fully fledged, competent, inspired practitioners of verse - tradional or modern. People of all sorts, from all parts of the world will come here with a common interest - poetry. Page created on 3rd November 1999 This page was last updated on 25 November 1999 .