First Time posting anything here to this site. My interest is focused primarily on the "Creative Writing" aspect of the Forum. (I joined by invitation of another member.) Having never been exposed to this forum and procedures before, I'm not really knowledgeable of where documents such as "poems" or "poetic narratives" are posted. Since this is a "Test Thread," I will go ahead and post a simple poem here to see if this works and what comments (if any) I might receive in return.

Here's a Double Dactyl poem entitled: "Prufrock's Symbolic World, dated January 14, 2015:
Prufrock’s Symbolic World



Metaphors-Extraordinaire


Thomas Stearns Eliot

Metaphysical consciousness

Aura of aging and decay.



Streams of consciousness forever

Proto-disillusionment

The mermaids singing each to each

The mermaids will not sing today.



Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved,

(January 14, 2015) (Double Dactyl)