Poetry has been a love of mine since I was very young. I dabbled in it in High School, but I did not do any serious writing until after my daughter was born. I began taking a writing course via mail correspondence. Taking care of a baby and a house did not leave much time to study and write so I did not complete the course. It seemed there was never enough time to devote to seriously pursuing my writing. However, I did have surges of inspiration in which, sometimes I would write six or seven poems within a couple of hours. Often, I would revise these within the next few hours after writing them. Some poems did not seem to need much rewriting and editing them became a task I could do very quickly, too. Eventually, I typeset these into several volumes, though I did not publish the volumes. I did publish one or two via the internet, but did pursue this either because I did not have the time and money to devote to copyrighting everything and I had so much material saved up. More recently I found out about "Creative Commons," licensing and this provided an avenue for safe publishing without cost. It also consumed very little time. Much of my poetry is inspirational, though I have written poems on everyday subjects quite often.