First Blog

Amazing how the universe provides. A couple of weeks ago I exchanged emails with my niece about starting a blog, but put it off until I had time to digest the instructions. Then tonight I wanted to comment about someone else's blog, but in order to do so I had to set up a blog account.

My blog name loosely translated from latin means hits & misses, literally it means information and error. That's the extent of my latin. It was a stretch to put in "et" instead of "and." I plan to use this blog for poems and opinions. You may like what I post, that's datum. I may change my opinion, that's erratum.

It may be lyrical and descriptive, but if it doesn't rhyme it's not poetry. Poems should rhyme. That's how they're distinguished from prose. I tried to post a poem on Facebook, but it took out all the line returns and ruined the poem. Here's the poem as it's supposed to be:

Flutterby

9-5-09

With my eye

I spy

A butterfly.

On this occasion

It's of the swallowtail persuasion

With wings of yellow and black

And towards the back

A hue

Of blue.