Being a good diligent writer, I sat down recently to do some research for a poem I was planning to write. The inspiration for the poem was a theme and I had only one idea for this theme, which was why I required the background reading.

I Googled a few terms on the internet, pulled up, read and printed numerous relevant web pages. So where's the irony? Well, having done all this, I actually ended up being inspired to write a completely different take on the theme, which required none of the reasearch I'd done! Still, at least the process stimulated my creative Muse!