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