When I began to write poems, it was an outlet of feelings pent up inside me. After I had a few, I heard of a company that published them in collections of several writers. If your poem was chosen, you could buy a copy of the collection. I continued to write as I had feelings to express and found a theme developing. It seems I was drawn to Christian thoughts and dreams. I also expressed my hurts and disappointments whether in myself or others. Everyone seems to write about the tragedy of 9/11, and I was lucky to have my submission chosen to be in a collection that was published. There were...