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About:
Wimsical collection of poems written by a High School girl who loved reading classical literature and dreamed of becoming an author. Some of the poems were written in her poetry class, where she experimented with different forms and rhyme schemes, some for the school’s newspaper, some for publication or college applications, and many for practice in improving her skills.
Introduction (as seen in the book):
High School is four years in one’s life where you not only start to improve your education, but also your relationship to yourself. It’s the time to discover your likes and dislikes, and find the goals or dreams you may have thought about before, but are the ones you now want to pursue.
I had just started to build a little more confidence in what I considered my lifelong hope to become an author, a writer, a playwright, something, and yet everything. I joined the school’s newspaper shortly after taking a poetry class during our strange Covid year.
I went to Elgin Academy at the time, a private, non-secular school that has now been shut down, just one year after my graduation, due to low attendance. The poetry class was a great escape and beacon of hope during that time for me. We learned and practiced various poetic forms and often had time to share our in-class written works with our peers, reading them one at a time. I never shied away from the opportunity. The confidence it gave me to have others listen and comment on my poetry made the goal of becoming a novelist expand to additional outlets.
Many of the poems inside were written for class, some for the school’s newspaper, The Cupola, one for my college application, three previously published, one made it on my teacher’s honorary poet’s wall, and some solely for fun. I kept this collection, revisiting it many times since then, in hopes that one day it could be in a professional format.
Rereading through some of them, years later, from my college perspective, they make me laugh and still shock me. I think it’s important to keep a record of where you start, no matter the discomfort it brings your older self in its critique, just to measure how you’ve grown.
What better way to see how your mind was functioning than through poetry?
Where can I purchase?
Ebook and Paperback available on amazon.com.
Paperback: $14.99