Attached Link: Confessions of a Poetaster

I may get this printed on a business card. :) * * * * * *A poet writes poems; the writer of inferior poems is called a "poetaster." A writer of insignificant, meretricious, or shoddy poetry. [New Latin potaster : Latin pota, poet; see poet + Latin -aster, pejorative suff.] Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ***************************** Po"et*as`ter, n. An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. --Macaulay. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

lol Dialyn, if I'd known that word before, I'd have used it as a screenie Shanna :-)

I got there first. :oD

Describes me to a 'T'. What rhymes with Tyalangan'di?

That is me too on bad days, like today. But oh well.

"Poetastro" is the Italian word, and it's used pretty often here... usually by people who feel the best poets alive and are calling thus every other poet they read...

Some people have beautifully developed egos, don't they? So large that they crush everyone around them. Ah well. I don't mind admitting I'm in the Poetaster Club. When it comes to poetry, honesty forces me to admit that I have more audacity than skill.