I am new to this board but would like to put my two cents worth in. I am a poet with a book coming out later this year. However an artist read my poetry and convinced me to have music put to it. The very first poems I made into songs where recently played on the Smokey Mountain Cowboy Church program and filtered to radio and internet. The homemade CD demo that I had with two songs on it sold and the songs are going to be recorded this year. I had a hugh response to my lyrics. I strongly believe that a good poem makes a great lyric and so do a lot of artists I know. I write mostly gospel but have been asked to write a couple country lyrics which I am doing now . I have one song on my web that was first published as a poem if you care to hear it go to www.myspace.com/teresa3696 its only recorded with guitar but the words is what makes a song first. Teresa