Many years ago, a friend, who had discovered that I wrote poetry for my own enjoyment, challenged me to address a popular subject of his - in poetry. I told him, "Give me one word - any word - and I'll give you a couple of stanzas of poetry." (Quite appropriately, I did write one on "arrogance") What eventually happened was that, after some years of playing this game, I eventually decided to share my work publicly and published a collection of my poetry in "On - Volume 1" (1996) which was "on" many of the varied subjects about which I had quietly written (I wish I still had all the ones I...