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When did you write your first poem?

Blog Posted:6/15/2022 5:10:00 AM

How old were you when you wrote your first poem? Did you show it to family or friends?

How did they react? Did you feel encouraged as a poet/writer?

This is a poll for research for a project of mine.

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James
Fraser

Date: 6/26/2022 3:05:00 AM

Con't - Throughout my poems, there's music of some sort in them, but not them all. My kids enjoy what I wrote, some close friends, but colleagues at my new employment have read more than any others previously. Do I feel encouraged presently, more than I have than the previous 5 - 6 years as we've been bringing up our Son, Jamie. PS, My wife and I - 'Olive Eloisa Guillermo' met on PS, and we met in Manila 2015, and married in 2016 <3 nice Blog, would love to see it's end project, James xx

James
Fraser

Date: 6/26/2022 3:05:00 AM

Like Jan, I didn't like poetry when young, although I loved listening to lyrics of the music I grew up with. I didn't start writing until 2009 when feeling a little down in life, I wrote 'The Clever Ape to the Horrible Human' of which is on PS. It was written whilst listening to 'Pink Floyd's' track 'Keep Talking' of which 'Stephen Hawking' appeared to narrate a few words, and to date I've written nearly 2300 poems, all because of life's circumstance and my love for Music.

Jan
Allison

Date: 6/19/2022 2:14:00 AM

I didn't enjoy poetry as a child and i didn't write. I wrote my first poem 'splendid Isolation' when my hubby was in hospital having his cancer surgery and that was November 2013. jan x

James Fraser
Date: 6/26/2022 3:06:00 AM

Our startings were very close Jan, yours Nov 2013, and I sometime in 2009 :) x

Michelle
Faulkner

Date: 6/17/2022 8:41:00 AM

HI Sally, I think I wrote my first poem when I was 13, it was a tribute to my mother, and she's kept it all these years so that means so much to me. I actually stopped writing in my mid twenties, and didn't return to poetry until I found this site in 2018, and it's really helped me blossom as a writer, I feel so blessed to be a part of this remarkable group~

Constance
La France

Date: 6/16/2022 2:28:00 PM

Sally, my first poem was printed in crayon, because I could not write yet, my family always encouraged me to be a writer, they saw the seed in me growing, Grandma had been the family story teller, so I sort of inherited story telling from her. I like to say she gave me the gift of words. I wrote poems about flowers, my pets, friends, family etc, but my first real poem was written on the day my father died, that day I found my poetic voice and the rest is history as they say, I feel blessed that I found Poetry Soup, to write and share my poems,blessings ~Constance

Beryl
Edmonds

Date: 6/16/2022 12:53:00 AM

I was fourteen and one day at school the teacher told us we were going to write an anthology of verse. Had never thought about writing poetry before, the first thing we had to do was design our book cover, then the poetry began. To my surprise I found I enjoyed writing and still have my little book of poems to this day sixty years later. That was how my poetry journey began. I often get asked to write for birthdays, weddings and funerals for which I am always happy to oblige… Belle

John
Watt

Date: 6/15/2022 9:39:00 PM

I wrote my first song lyrics when I was 17. I had 3 friends at the time who were learning to write songs, so we all kind of learned together and shared with each other. I had a rhyming dictionary which I thought was very helpful, but my first critique came from one of my songwriter friends, "too many rhymes", haha. I got over it and kept writing. I started writing poetry 3 years later in a creative writing class in college.

Unseeking
Seeker

Date: 6/15/2022 9:00:00 PM

Probably since early school days … then it kind of hibernated (as I got busy with college, career and family), before it’s inevitable resurrection!

Connie
Pachecho

Date: 6/15/2022 1:03:00 PM

I remember that first poem. It took me all day to write. I took a pen to a greeting card and wrote to my future wife. She was Yale and I was high school and I was overwhelmed with her intelligence and everything about her. So I had to impress her with a poem. I wrote spontaneous and without pretense. That is me. One would think a Cupid arrow type poem would be the best approach and bingo. But instead I wrote about how a den of baby rabbits met their mortality by a wily fox. It turned out to be a hit with her and subsequent we bonded from there. Thank you Sally for the blog and reading.

Hilo
Poet

Date: 6/15/2022 11:00:00 AM

I was twelve and in middle school when I wrote a small piece to impress a girl. First, I read it aloud to my friends in the restroom, then they laughed and told me to flush it because it didn't sound like I had written it. Same on the baseball field where the guys also had laughed crying, "Foul," they believe that I had one of my older siblings write it for me. All in all, she did like it, so I kept writing more but I sadly learned that she liked the poems more than she'd liked me. In the end, I went with her BFF, at that time, who was always an earshot away. Hoping I am that me whom others agree, Sally, and with a heart-filled thanks my friend, Aloha~William

Darlene
De Beaulieu

Date: 6/15/2022 10:57:00 AM

I created my first poem when I lived in Wiarton. This is were I learned to create poetry. I created many poems there. I learned to create poetry at the Literacy Center. After I created the poem I had to read it out loud.

L Milton
Hankins

Date: 6/15/2022 9:57:00 AM

Sally, I'm not sure, but it would have been when I was in elementary school. I've always been a writer. I doubt that I showed it to anyone. Perhaps a teacher. I took a poetry class in college and the professor encouraged us to submit our work to magazines and journals. She told me to "keep your day job," but I had a poem in Christian Century before the class ended.

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Balmy Dawn	Haiku	nature,
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Three Trees	Verse	autumn,color,nature,
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Lavender Skies 1	Rhyme	love,romantic love,sky,so
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Transcendence	Tanka	beach,death,destiny,fathe
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After the Flood	Rhyme	bible,god,inspiration,
After I Write	Free verse	literature,meaningful,per
That's Poetry	Free verse	poems,poetess,poetry,poet
Reality	Senryu	life,
Rest	Free verse	death,freedom,heaven,jour
Auction of Emotions	Free verse	angst,emotions,philosophy
Tragic, When Innocence Was Lost and Love Fled	Romanticism	art,creation,deep,symboli
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A Loud Hullabaloo	Quatern	nature,
Stitches	Free verse	father,mother,
Golden Dawn	Monoku	beauty,color,morning,natu
Love In the Making	Pantoum	love,
Repossessing Reality	Tanka	allusion,life,memory,
A Fiery Lick	Free verse	art,creation,ocean,passio
Home Is My Beating Heart	Quintain (Sicilian)	home,
O For the Wings, Eyes and Ears of An Owl	Rhyme	fantasy,muse,mythology,
When Night Falls	Free verse	home,night,peace,silence,
A Date With Milton	Free verse	death of a friend,
In Denial	Free verse	fate,
Tea-Drenched Flowers	Pantoum	analogy,appreciation,beau
Vaporise	Sonnet	heart,joy,silence,spiritu
Reflections	Triolet	memory,new year,
An Existential Curiosity	Free verse	endurance,inspiration,sci
Sacred Hearts	Free verse	appreciation,spiritual,
2am, An Ode To Night	Free verse	creation,inspirational,me
Hulk	Rhyme	confusion,
You Sang To Me	Rhyme	appreciation,music,
Ripples In the Water	Rhyme	image,water,
Soothing Tomorrows	Free verse	emotions,love,
Frost	Haiku	cool,
- Haiku X 245 - Legend -	Haiku	beauty,christmas,flower,
- Funeral -	Free verse	dark,death,fantasy,farewe
And In My Dreams	Rhyme	night,
Magic Spell	Quintain (Sicilian)	dance,
Dance Little Lady Dance	Rhyme	appreciation,beauty,
- Pearl Jewelry -	Shape	beautiful,
Beyond Reach	Free verse	analogy,children,emotions
There Is a Reason I Requested This Restaurant	Romanticism	dedication,love,marriage,
Finding and Forgiving	Triolet	appreciation,character,fo
- What's Wrong -	Free verse	confusion,dark,depression
Be the Flame of Compassion	Rhyme	care,encouraging,inspirat
Sweet Little Cat	Rhyme	cat,
Weep No More- Doll	Rhyme	children,happiness,loneli
If	Rhyme	loneliness,love,love hurt
911 the Falling Man Cometh	Rhyme	truth,
I Know Why I Sit Here	Free verse	friendship,
Always Gray	Rhyme	dark,lost love,
Where Rare Birds Sing	Verse	autumn,nature,
Reflections	Shape	remember,
Dust Devil	Haiku	change,howl,nature,storm,
Hats and Cats	Limerick	animal,cat,clothes,fun,me
Big Words, Small Words Its Really Up To Her	Prose	appreciation,hero,write,
Hide	Free verse	love,
Brouhaha	Acrostic	abuse,addiction,
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