"Welcome to Tomorrow" and some other ramblings

There are a few interesting points that I have noticed so far on my short little journey into the world of poetry.

1. I find myself look at things a little differently again.  Basically, I am looking for some inspiration.
2. I find myself having a different attitude towards poetry than I did when I was in high school.
3. I find that this blog might be the best place to document ideas.  For example, Wednesday, I had the idea that I wanted to get on paper.  I didn’t bring my note book with me to write stuff down, and to be honest, I’m not the kind of guy who is going to carry a poetry notebook around with me anyway even if it does look like this:

I have also made the decision to go ahead and post the first poem up, but you have to know that it is still a work in progress.

Here goes:

Welcome to tomorrow
What is new is old
what’s old, is new
She is gone
To be with her own kind
We are forced
to pick up the slate
Forced to move on
Like it or not
It’s not our choice
But the choice is made
Welcome to tomorrow

Right now the part I don’t like is the part marked in yellow.   It has been suggested that I should try to paint a better picture.  This is actually pretty hard for me.  So I wrote down some of my brainstorming ideas that I might try to use.

• To many bees in the honey
• Golden honey
• Honey is golden
• Honey tastes sweet
• Honey is sticky
• Flies in the honey trap
• You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar
• Vinegar is interesting….
• It’s bitter
• Vinegar is an acid.
• Honey and vinegar.