When I started writing poetry

When I started writing poetry

When I started

writing poetry I

was fourteen years old

I never kept them.

When I started

writing poetry I

did not write

about thing about me.

When I started

writing poetry I

did not try

to make them work.

When I started

writing poetry but

now I write

about is about

me and the

things around me.

When I started

writing poetry I

did not want

the world to

see it.

Now the world

sees all of

my poetry.

When I started

writing poetry eight

years ago and

here it is

now I am

writing true poetry.

When I started

poetry I never

thought my poetry

would be published

one day.

-Gene Conner

December 31, 2006

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Bryan Adam Tomimbang's picture

Same here! I started when I was seven. Nice write.

Ruth Lovejoy's picture

Nice piece I can relate. I started writing at age 10 myself..Now 42 years later still writing..... Happy New Year! Hope it's a good one...