The Story of My Poetry
Welcome to personalized poetry for the service-oriented soul! I am glad you are here.
Each
week I plan to post at least one or two poems to this blog and describe the
story behind my poetry. I may also provide some insight into how I write my
poetry from time to time. I welcome your comments, encouragement, suggestions,
and requests!
Welcome to personalized poetry for the service-oriented soul! I am glad you are here.
I am currently a full-time graduate student in the
Technical Writing and Digital Rhetoric program at Dixie State University. I
also work full time as the administrative specialist to the dean of the College
of Humanities and Social Sciences here at DSU. Between school, work, and a
family of five at home, life is busy - but life is good.
One blog I’ve followed since I was an elementary
school librarian is An Hour a Day by children’s author Claudia Mills: https://claudiamillsanhouraday.blogspot.com/.
I plan to follow Claudia’s footsteps and enjoy this journey in all its happy,
sad, and messy glory.
We all know you should blog about something you are
passionate about. That thing for me is poetry. I wrote my first poem in
kindergarten on a subject I knew nothing about (snow - I lived in the Phoenix
area) but it rang true to everyone who read it. Someone must have praised it
because I remember feeling so proud of that poem, and I never stopped writing.
Eventually, I grew up, got married and had three kids.
Poetry means something different to me now. Rather than writing to process my
own life experiences, I’m reaching out beyond myself with poetry. Writing poems
for others has become a meaningful way for me to give back some of what poetry
gave me in my youth.
Thank you for sharing your talents with me. I love it that you're writing this. I've been wanting to write a blog for several months now (about my health journey) but have put it off because of all the excuses☺ This may just be the encouragement that I needed!
ReplyDeleteHooray! I hope you DO start your own blog. You also have a way with words. Generally a bit more colorful than mine (LOL) but still, it's REAL and I love it! Make sure you send me the link when you take the plunge.
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