Poetry and art are two entities I've never dismissed. When it comes to writing, especially poems, a lot of children just don't get it. I remember writing my mom a poem in my 3rd or 4th grade classroom, obviously a school assignment I had taken home to give to her. I don't recall her expression when I gave it to her but I can sure imagine she loved it enough to keep it stacked away with the other school projects I had brought home from school. From time to time I see my first