Intro and Love Poem

Hi, I'm Jon...a blogging virgin..this is my first time blogging but not my first venture into websites. I'm the webmaster of an embarrassing number of websites. If interested, http://www.jbratton.com/ ,which I'm still developing, gives a trail to many of my other websitesFor 35 years I've written rhyming material, predominantly humorous stuff and most of it I've still got, in 'back of an envelope' form, kicking about in the loft somewhere. I thought I'd publish it all in this blog, chronologically as it was written, with a bit of commentary to put each piece in context.I need to dig it all out to know exactly how I'll proceed but I think the work will fall into phases, starting in 1973 with a bunch of song lyrics which I wrote over, I suppose, a couple of years. There would have been a few little humorous pieces for, say, a valentine card or two also in that first decadeIn 1983 I went to work in the Middle East and in the next 7 years I wrote and delivered many multiple versed speeches which invariably startedThis is just a little dittyA Ma Salama poemTo say goodbye to our dear friendsAs they make their way back home.There were also a few pieces written for, and performed in an Am Dram TheatreIn 1990 I returned to the UK and within a couple of years after that I bought a Picture Framing Art Craft Shop..the most interesting shop in town..probablyWith my artist pal Jim Harker we produced a product called a Doodle Ditty which was a framed up caricature, alongside a few verses about the 'victim'. I have a huge pile of the draft poems and indeed a few of Jim's draft drawingsIn 2004 my son Gary launched a website http://www.imag-e-nation.com/ which was an eShop to sell craft products, mainly for handmade card makers, as well as providing a forum, gallery, tips, techniques and verses for cardsTo support that website ie to send it traffic I developed http://www.verses4cards.co.uk/ and wrote a lot of verses, as well as perloining 'author unknown' stuff already on the web.That brings us to the present time. I'm off to rummage in the loft for my VersaTile Scribblings but in the meantime here's a Love poem I wrote for the St Valentines Verses section of the website to give you a little flavour of what to expect over the coming monthsThis is a love poemWhat I have writtenCos with all consuming loveI've been smittenAnd when I say smittenI mean everywhereThere's one bit, particularly smitBut let's not go down thereI say this joyouslyEcstatically, euphorically and suchCos I love you, verilyVerily, verily muchI've told everyone I love youThere's no one I didn't tellWhy, I even told the vicarAnd he toll'd the bellWilliam Shakespeare wrote sonnetly"Love is as a fever, longing still"I think he's rightI've never felt so illCos I'm o'er brimming with love's feverYet all atingle, aroused, excitedAnd as to the state of me trothIt's well and truly plightedI've come over all funnyBut that's your effect on meIt's cos I love you more than.......a dog loves a tree...a lumberjack loves a cucumber snack...a fish loves staying wet.... Romeo loved Juliet...an aardvark loves antsI've a stirring in me......mindFor the right words, sentimentsI'm grasping, gropingThis poem could go on foreverLike us I'm hoping