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ah, what to say… i wrote my first poem when i was 13 years old. i put a bunch of ryhming four-line stanzas on a page, then tore them into sections and re-arranged them until i liked the flow. boy, were those early poems terrible. then, from my senior year in HS into my early (and fleeting) college career, it dawned on me that poetry didn’t have to rhyme. it didn’t need set stanzas. then, the flow came easier for me. i’ve worked some really unstructured rhymes back in during this last burst of inspiration. they seem to pop up all over the place now.
a college friend, who is a writer and artist, helped me put together a book of my writing. it’s called “paper airplanes.” he wrote it out by hand (all 200 pages of it) with illustrations. ...

ah, what to say… i wrote my first poem when i was 13 years old. i put a bunch of ryhming four-line stanzas on a page, then tore them into sections and re-arranged them until i liked the flow. boy, were those early poems terrible. then, from my senior year in HS into my early (and fleeting) college career, it dawned on me that poetry didn’t have to rhyme. it didn’t need set stanzas. then, the flow came easier for me. i’ve worked some really unstructured rhymes back in during this last burst of inspiration. they seem to pop up all over the place now.
a college friend, who is a writer and artist, helped me put together a book of my writing. it’s called “paper airplanes.” he wrote it out by hand (all 200 pages of it) with illustrations. as you would imagine, i have the only treasured copy-and i love him dearly… we had plans for it, of course, but 10 years have passed and here it sits on my shelf. we decided that we tend to be dreamers-not exactly do-ers. then came a marriage and kids, and my writing got replaced with, well, sleeping when i could.
then, in june, i found an old friend on myspace(my profile is at www.myspace.com/danniverse) and i joined poetry groups before i really had anything new to add. but, it got me writing again. i’ve added something to my blog almost every day. i might be sacrificing quality for quantity, but it’s been great to get me moving again. hopefully, this new grown-up work will motivate me, finally, to try and do something with it.
and so through one of my writing friends on myspace, i found this site. i’m so impressed with the writers on here, and so grateful for the feedback i’ve gotten so far.
maybe now, i’ll try harder to make sure i’m not the only one who ever sees this stuff…