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Your first time (writing a poem)

in Poetry Discussion

I was really astounded by some of the comments over on our Instagram recently. There's so many varying stories to all the different poets and I wanted to keep up with that.

So my question is:

What was your first time writing a poem like?

For me, I was 17... first love. I decided to write a poem for her birthday, and even drew a landscape to go along with it. I would really love to read that again nowadays. Puppy love, ey?!

What about all of you?

How and why?

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Ken LeMarchand

Nov 05, 2022

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That's funny that you mention your first time was romantic because that is exactly when I wrote my first poem - at least intentionally. It was for my high school sweetheart (very complicated story) but I wrote it and called her one night to read it over the phone.

This was before we even started dating though. I was such a dweeb back then and super shy, but I ended up asking her out after reading the poem. Probably one of the longest phone calls I've ever had - roughly 4 hours straight.

This was back during the dial-up days of the internet, so we didn't have much to distract us save for MySpace lol. I can't recollect the poem entirely, but it was certainly the first.

I didn't write poetry again until my breakup - funny how that happens, so Swifty. 🤣

I wrote up my first self-published book nerdishly titled Pair A Dice & Dream Lands based off from my love for fantasy, Shakespearean romance, and what not.

I created it knowing absolutely nothing about publishing, ran it through only my closest of friends at the time, and published under my self-imposed publishing company name The BALL Independent Publishing.

This was back in like 2012 and apparently you can still find it on Amazon. 🤣 I thought that it would have been removed by now because I put it up when Amazon was still using the CreateSpace service, long before KDP. I also published it under my real name and not my publishing name I use now.

I wouldn't recommend purchasing it though because I've recently edited and used most, if not all, the poems from it to publish a new chapbook in the future.

But that is basically my humble beginnings.