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Originally Posted by Aaroneet
This has the flow of a song. Did you intend for it to be that way?
Very nice.
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No but it sort of turned out that way.
Actually this is my first attempt to write a poem in more than 15 years.
When I was in high school in English class we were given an assignment to write poems. Up until that point I wasn’t completely inexperienced in the subject. So I spent all night researching, calling up and asking friends for their input and help and reading various books. It was one of the few times in high school I was up all night writing trying to perfect a poem. The next day I turned it and the day after I got my grade. It was an “F”. It completely devastated me. It was the first time I received an “F” in high school. So I looked around me and noticed that everybody else received an “A”. The teacher then stood and told the everybody that they would receive extra credit if they read the poem in front of the class. So one by one everyone got up and started to read their poetry and I noticed a theme. My classmates words more resembled rap/hip-hop than they did poetry. Some of them even did their “poems” in the form of a rap song. Towards the end of the class everybody had read their poems except me. The teacher said in a condescending tone “Don’t you want to get up and read your poem?” I uttered in a small voice “no.”
Actually it was from that point on that I was disenchanted with poetry, fiction, etc. Anything having to do with any association with “English” class. It wasn’t until recently particularly me joining gnet that my spark for poetry began to grow. Reading a lot of the poems on here has inspired me and I’ll probably write more in the future. I know my first attempt isn’t the best but I hope to get better and hope you all can give me further input in the future. Thank you
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