*laughs* Oh, I'm so useless at those questions. It helps that I don't really consider myself to be a poet. I just enjoy playing around with the forms every now and again or I have something in my head that's asked to be a poem. ^_^
I do recall that it was my mother who first kindled my enjoyment of poetry and encouraged me to write my own pieces. At first they were just silly kids' guessing games of no more than two lines, but the first poem I remember writing was a limerick. I don't remember how it goes, but I remember typing it up on a typewriter that was ancient already using red ink.
I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teen, though I've lost most of the pieces and they weren't very good anyway. What I love most about poetry is... probably the way it lets you play with words, as well as the challenge of the restrictions that come with the form you've chosen. I've found that the poems that give me the most grief in writing them are usually the ones that give me the greatest pleasure in revisiting them.
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Date: 2012-02-03 09:59 pm (UTC)I do recall that it was my mother who first kindled my enjoyment of poetry and encouraged me to write my own pieces. At first they were just silly kids' guessing games of no more than two lines, but the first poem I remember writing was a limerick. I don't remember how it goes, but I remember typing it up on a typewriter that was ancient already using red ink.
I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teen, though I've lost most of the pieces and they weren't very good anyway. What I love most about poetry is... probably the way it lets you play with words, as well as the challenge of the restrictions that come with the form you've chosen. I've found that the poems that give me the most grief in writing them are usually the ones that give me the greatest pleasure in revisiting them.