Thank you for your kind thoughts. I have had a lifelong love of poetry. I am happy that you found my comment helpful.

I would have answered some of your excellent comments on my Climate piece sooner but I tire quickly these days. It's very frustrating I still have so many things I want to say (LOL).

I hope you continue writing poetry. It will never pay you in any spendable form. But the rewards of being able to express yourself honestly and powerfully are priceless.

Consider this poem by Anne Sexton. Think about her word choices and the form of the poem. The intensity of what you NEED to say would perhaps best fit a looser more flexible format like this.

Wanting to Die

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.

I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.

Then the almost unnameable lust returns.

Even then I have nothing against life.

I know well the grass blades you mention,

The furniture you have placed under the sun.

But suicides have a special language.

Like carpenters they want to know which tools.

They never ask why build.

-Anne Sexton