Year of No Fear: Poetry
Continuing my Year of No Fear series. Today I’ll talk about poetry. I’ve been writing poetry since I was 11. That’s when I discovered free verse. Free verse is freeing, and it’s still my favorite type of poetry to write. My first poem, which was published in our middle school paper, was a free-verse poem about unicorns (I had an obsession with unicorns for most of my childhood.) I didn’t write many poems, and sort of dropped it until high school when I had my first real crush, my first real boyfriend, and my first real heartbreak. My poetry muse seems to thrive when I’m unhappy. Not the most healthy thing, but writing poetry is very cathartic. And fun.