The future is always beginning now.
Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.