07-17-2012, 07:48 PM
started writing when most girls do, in my teenage years, obviously I wrote amazing poems that were life changing. When I was twenty and no longer knew it all, I found the shoe box full of shite without the smell though it was such bad poetry it should have smelled. I burned it and then wrote more shite just not quite as juvenile. I left it again for years. The next time I returned to it, the Internet existed and I went online. Found poetry.com and a few like minded people and tried to learn HOW to write poetry so that I could give words the attention they deserve. I gave up again, time constraints, moves etc took over and have waited for (or ignored) the muse since, i think i have managed 4 poems this YEAR I do not have a background or education in writing or anything even along those lines, I just grew up in an English speaking country, where we mostly made mince meat of it. It took a long time to pronounce films with one syllable, take the 'h' off the end of throat, and realise that grammar was not my grandmother and punctuation is more than a full stop. I bought a few books, bad ones, got frustrated and just started googling forms, meter, etc but phantom on poetry.com probably helped better than any of it! Poetry.com died a death for all of us and as i said, life took over. Leanne posted something last week and I got drawn back in to online poetry. The interaction keeps the motivation going. I LOVE reading other people's poetry online. So here I am 