Hi poets and poetry lovers,
This week, let's take a nostalgic journey back to where it all began: our very first poems. Whether it was a school assignment, a heartfelt expression, or a spontaneous creation, our first poems mark the starting point of our poetic journeys.
What was your first poem about, and what inspired you to write it? How do you feel when you look back at it now? Have your themes, style, and voice changed significantly since then?
Share your first poems, the stories behind them, and how your poetry has evolved over time. Let's celebrate our beginnings and appreciate the growth and progress we've made as poets.
The first poem I ever wrote was (most likely) a haiku for school when I was in second grade. My mother, actually, was visiting our class to teach us about haiku. Technically, the first poem I wrote in my head was a wordku about I think polar bears? that morning (I never wrote it down and have little memory of it or the haiku I wrote later that day I think about autumn).
During my 4th grade poetry unit, I wrote a poem outside school about a car alarm keeping me awake, so that was the first I wrote not for school.
The first poem I wrote when I was getting serious about poetry was an awkward iambic poem about friendship being my only home, and it used quotes from poems I had read like sources in a research paper. LOL. My poems from that stage of my writing were all awkward, humorously bad poems with forced rhyme and forced meter and which often said nothing. Most of the poems I wrote that first year are absolute trash but have sentimental value to me, so I can't bring myself to throw them out and instead have a ''doggerel pile'' sitting on my shelf.😆