A Brief History

I started writing poetry casually when I was 13. I think some of my first few poems are somewhere in my archives of blogspot (which I shall not be pulling out).

I started a blog specially for poetry when I was 17. I created it on Tumblr, with my first post aptly entitled Turning Seventeen.

A while back, Tumblr has decided for some reason that the material that I have posted may be “sensitive”.

I have been meaning to do this for a while now, but I am finally exporting my old poetry into a new blog. And in turn I am hoping that I will write more.

At 13 I was writing for fun. At 17 I started writing to express the thoughts and emotions I couldn’t share with anyone. Some were dark, others were about the quintessential teenage experience of unrequited love.

Now at 22 – having mentally and emotionally aged exponentially over the past few years – I am excited to see what my poetry will be about.

But first, the poetry of my late teenagehood (I will probably cringe while re-reading some of them but hey, growth?).