Just sent Smiless an e-mail. Haven't played anything like this before but I think I just might give it a try.

Kate, I too wonder somehow that people show up but don't post... I have learned something through this elite group though... It is better to have been read and not spoken to than spoken to and dismissed... Take it as a compliment that they are coming...

Work your way in and get to know people here and get right in the middle of it! If you want to join in the game come on in it is not for a certain few those are just the ones that respond to the challenges on a regular basis and this has drawn us close... Find your place here...

I'm trying sister, that is a truth
But right now I'm practicing the impundence of youth
I'm feeling a bit impish on this rainy spring night
Must mean there's a thunderstorm coming tonight
So I'm plunging in headlong in my peculiar type way
And encouraging other to come have a say
After all there's safety in numbers though not for lemmings
And I'm shy but bullheaded a paradox most perplexing

Well now Kate
let me tell you this
You're quite good
little miss

You find it hard
that nothing they say
Let me encourage you
sweetie come play

You've just told me
that you are shy
With your talent
I'm wondering why

You hold your own
you'll be just fine
Come on girl
keep writing those lines

Just keep doing
what you know is true
Don't ever worry
we'll welcome you

very nice
,welcome...glad to see you came out of your shyness

flower blosssom
release your seeds
for everyone
to appreciate
tender shoots
with favorable conditions
may proliferate

Thank you sister for your encouragment tonight
I'll try to turn rash impulse into flight
A flight not away from what I've found
But rather towards it, feet leaving the ground
I'll fall a few times, put my feet in my mouth
Maybe that's why I need wings to tell you the truth
So I have a way to keep going when something is stuck
I may not have grace but I'v always had pluck
This is the most writing I've done in years
I stopped for a long time, succummed to my fears
Time to rediscover my wings, covered in scales and leather
Stretching them out to find what I can discover

To be honest this is more posts than I really expected
And with your support I'm really quite flattered
Most of you are so good and can write so darn MUCH
Its amazing to see that it left me a little hushed
'Course I've opened my mouth now (or so to speak)
And and that's left is to keep going and see....

Rhyme and prose set aside...

Kate you can do this and I know you will be jsut fine. Give it some time and find your niche... All it takes is patience and being honest and open with others in here and taking the time to get to know them the way they want to get to know you and you will slip right into place in not time.

It's good to see that this art is being carried on through the next generation.