Discover the poet in yourself, your ability to compose poems of birth, of love, of memorial and eulogy, of all the occasions of life. With easy instruction, learn step-by-step, by diagrams and numerous examples, the techniques of poetry both classical and contemporary. Each of the 22 chapters offers a "how to" of poetry technique, a "show-and-tell" of birthday poems, wedding poems, anniversary poems, et cetera. Author Michael Curtis sympathetically guides the writer into the art and the craft of writing poems for any occasion.