(C) Kathleen L. Hicks

All poets here have become my new friends.
Given more hours, the more I will spend.
Reading their love and feeling their pain
Keeps me returning again and again,

From each new poem I learn, like the rest,
Experience rates high in our world, we attest.
Sharing is among our dearest delights,
So we give word by word, or today: bite by bite!

Keep feeding me more; I'm hungry you see.
Your gifts, brief or long, are treasured by me.
I doubt that this appetite you'll ever quell,
But the bet is now on, so try as you will!