Right, to start things off I am 15 years old and I live in England.
^ Random (:
Okay.. I love writing poetry.
Really really really love it.
Umm I don’t want to sound like a show-off or anything (I am just not like that :S), but tbh I think I have a talent.
The words just come spilling out of me and I can just write and write and write (usually at about 3am haha)
I have written about 30 poems in last couple of years..
About 10 of them I feel are really quite good, the others are just okay.
I write in many different styles.. and about dreams, death, life, water, war, issues, people.. loads of stuff.. and I have 2 ‘funny’ ones (one is about a monster in a pipe and it rhymes quite well) that would be a childrens poem.
Anyway.. I feel like I need to do something with my poems.
My parents and friends (my age) and adult friends think that I have a proper skill that needs to be developed.
A couple of weeks ago in Dance we had to choreograph a solo based on a stimulus.. and I chose one of my poems to base my dance on. It was about child abuse. So, my dance teacher asked me what was my stimulus and I showed her the poem. As she read it I watched her face change, and her eyes actually filled with tears! She asked me where the poem was from, and I regrettfully told her I had written it.. she was ’speechless’ at how powerful it was.. and strongly recommended talking to my english teacher to get recognised.
I expect many of you want to say ‘talk to your English teacher’, just like my dance teacher said.. but I don’t really feel like I could do that.. I just dont want the school to be involved.. poetry is not exactly ‘cool’ (aaa that sounds incredibly pathetic! but tbh this ‘generation’ is so focussed on fitting in and doing things the right way.. I just dont really want to stick out as ‘the girl who writes poems’ at school, even if they are good)
Ideally, I would love to get some of the poems published, but I expect this costs lots of money and stuff :S
I really feel that this is time to do something with them, how about entering a competition? That could be a start.. but which one would I enter?
So does anyone have any suggestions?
What would you recommend?
Thanks so much guys!
xxx
- TiffanyLily
