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
