Bold Butterfly OctPoWriMo Day 3

The prompt today is what was our first poem or what made us love poetry?

Well I don't know if this was my first poem but it's the poem that made me realized I had something to say with poetry. 

Bold Butterfly

A high school Junior I wrote a Shakespearean poem,

in creative writing class about swimming a race.

How I shot into the water, lived the moment.

In that moment I loved the chase.

Not the fastest swimmer, I loved

the feeling of the water treading alone my body,

the butterfly, oh how I remember thee, my beloved.

Modest in life, there I was bold, even in a swimsuit, oddy.

That was what I wrote a while ago in another being,

The me now and the me then would be disagreeing.

In high school I was on the local swim team, but I didn't join until later, most of my teammates had been on the team from a young age.  While I loved swimming since I was 7 I didn't discover the swim team until I was a teenager. My favorite stoke was the butterfly, one of the hardest stoke in swimming but I loved it. Also I was one of the better swimmers on my team in that stoke.  So one day in creative writing class it's what I wrote about and since I shared something about me, my teacher liked it.

~Annie