it was quite by accident
that I started writing poetry
a teacher at our local school
asked the staff to write a verse
I reluctantly tendered
my offering to him
he read the staff's poems
to his year seven class
and they took a vote on
the poem's they enjoyed
what a surprise I got
when the class liked mine
from that day on the teacher Mr Joe Bell
encouraged me to keep writing poetry
as he saw in my work a uniqueness
if anyone had told me eight years ago
that I'd be writing poetry online
I would have said they were well offline