Just a Thought

Did you ever read the greats? Whitman, Browning, Frost, Fitzgerald, Kilmer, Wilde, McKuen, St. Vincent Millay just to name a few. You know the well known names and the lesser ones as well I'm sure, spanning down the regalia of history, the list of names renowned and almost worshiped as the standards of writing poetry that set the method and patterns for those of us to follow and imitate. The ones taught in school. Upon rereading what I thought were once my favorites, I sighed and suddenly realized, ah, that's nice, yeah, that's okay, but, no, that's not me. Just look over to the right of the soup page and some newer ones are listed, go ahead, scroll over with the mouse or your finger on the pad or whatever that little square is called and inch down to see a list of names that changes. With some luck, you'll see present day soupers who are changing the patterns, setting new strides and methods, some old and well tempered, tending the old and conditioning the new, soon to be, the list of historical poets of the futures yet to be. Keep on souping poets and poetesses.