Poetry that Use to be

I know it sounds trite, but at one point I was a fairly good poet. In getting back to my writing I thought that would be a good place to start, its been more than four years, since before I started at my current job, that I was able to sit and write poetry.


Now I know this thoughts Genesis,stems from recent changes in my life. That doesn't make the observation any less valid. I was thinking over where I am and how much I have changed. Trying to reclaim the person I was without losing the person I am. I have hit some low points recently, but I know I am stronger than those depressive impulses.

Trying to find that creative spark to get my Writing on the move again, I was reading some of my old college assignments from English. Now to put it in perspective I have always loved poetry but I didn't think I was any good at it until my English professor lavished some pretty exalted praise in the margins of my papers. When I diagrammed someone else's writing and waxed poetic about what it could have meant and when I wrote poetry as part of a class assignment.

I don't know when I stopped writing Poetry, but I think that is going to be one of the first steps I take towards reclaiming my Voice.