So something along these lines:

Boy has it been busy at the Guilds and Poetry is no exception. First we have moved to a new location http://guilds.outpost10f.com/~poetry/index.html. We are also adding some new sections such as a Showcase for those not wanting to enter the contest but still display their original work, Resource which will contain legitimate contest we find for grants, scholarship for those in school and will also have good locations to seek ways of improving your poetry and new ideas. We will have our own link on the Ikonboard and down the pike we will being having live chat events to discuss poetry, authors etc.

I would like to talk about "Figurative language" which is a valuable tool that authors use to get their readers to visualize what is happening in their poem or story . Here are some types of figurative language : simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, alliteration, puns , idioms, and sensory language.

We are going to probe a little of each of these areas in the coming months. One of the most common is a simile. What is a simile? A simile is a comparison using like or as. It usually compares two objects that are dissimilar. Usually one of the elements of a simile is concrete and the other abstract. An example would be "My love is like a red, red rose —Robert Burns "

Does this make you feel what the poet is saying? Does it help you to compare your emotion through visualizing the scene and objects he is comparing. He's telling the reader about the rose's beauty when it's in full bloom (in the next line he tells us it is May clarifying the statement with the season).

"Love is like a rose" is a less complicated version of the simile, however, this could certainly be a more dangerous statement. It could be a dead rose in December or thorns of a rose or even a wilted rose. Sometimes similes can force us the writer or reader to consider how the two things being compared are dissimilar. However, the relationship between two dissimilar things can break down easily. Similes are powerful but should be used carefully.

Like this example from the The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop:
"his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age."

Powerful huh? Can you think of one or of your favorites? So remember when the Theme of Halloween comes up...think of your simile when writing your poems. "The night was as dark as a bat's wing". Give it lots of power!