How to layout poetry in Wordpress the way you want

This is the div trick I used to left indent poetry and group verses (better than tables for accessibility).  An annoying thing with both Blogger and Wordpress is that they like to correct things for you, thinking they know best what you wanted.  If you know HTML then better to go into the HTML or TEXT option and edit there.  But beware, don't flick between the two or all of your changes will be undone with auto correcting.

The code in the image box below, gives the formatted text that follows it. If you want to see the code more clearly, click on the image to enlarge it. I know this is not accessible for people with screen readers but only way I could get the code to show and not be acted upon and really this is a note for myself but sharing in case useful to anyone else.

After I’d biked around the loch ten times
and run up and down a couple of mountains
I sat down here to catch my breath.
I whipped out my camera
to capture this wondrous moment.
This is how the world looked tonight
in this glorious natural light.
I can’t tell you how disappointed I was, though,
that the view didn’t transform itself
into a more serious and highly processed black and white.

And the full thing with image can be seen here:
http://bernardgrownup.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/a-photograph/

Daily activity

I was looking at other things and found these blogs that I thought would be useful and have made me think about daily routines and their value. I already do a daily photo and it includes a write up generally, at http://www.blipfoto.com/

This is the second thing I looked at and was directed to it from the first, but it is what made me think about this. It's really a reason for writing everyday in a blog, even if you think you have 'nothing to say', because it improves your writing skills and also your observational skills of having opinions about things. No-one gets talkers block: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/09/talkers-block.html

This one gives daily suggestions of topics to write about if you cannot think of something yourself: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/ and can be followed on twitter by following the hashtag #POSTADAY2011.

It is a similar idea to another site that gives out daily assignments for photo a day projects http://dailyshoot.com/

I believe a daily routine of a particular discipline is the best way to actually do something. If you just say that you will do it as and when, then it will always be put off until tomorrow, case in point this blog!