What made u start writing poetry?

I write stories at school. I write poetry at home. It is a way of creating messages to people about life problems for me. Sure, I'm only a freshman, but to me, and hopefully several others, my poems send a message. I probably started writing poetry in 6th grade. I wrote my poem I'm Still Alive in 8th grade after my friend's poem was one of the winners in the poetry.com contest. That really inspired me, not knowing she could write like that. My emotions flooded and that's where it all began.

For me, it all started in the shower, long, long ago. I swear showers are magical.

I've always had a fancy for poetry ever since a young girl. I began recording my writes approximately threee years ago, anything written before that times wasn't too serious. It was through my younger sister that I found out about this site, and lately more so than any I have read several other's and began to develop a further interest to style's I had not known about. Writing allows me to express my deepest and darkest memories, my frustrations and my joys. :)

I needed a way to vent cause at the time and still a little today, no one would listen to me. Writing for me is the way I talk about what I really feel and think and ect.

I usually just get a little feeling deep down, and then it comes from that.
I usually get that feeling when something majorly emotional happens though.

I started writing poetry, when I was 12-13.
I started because a year before that, my best friend betrayed me, and stabbed me in the back.
Back then, I got bullied every sincle day.
I had a rough time getting over it.
And one day I just wrote about it. And I've been writing ever since.
The poem about the bullying is called "They think that they know me".
The poem about my friends betrayal is called "Betrayed".

I started writing last year, i mostly write love poems i found its the strongest emotion to me.

I started writing almost two years ago. It was because we had to write some poems at school and I realized I had the talent. So that's why I started. But that's not why I do it now.

^^ Your pic is creepy. :P

When i was about 10. my cousin Sarah had died. Then my grandpa and then my grandma...i wrote about them alot and then i got depressed and started writting about self harm.

The faerie in my bedroom.

Possibly when I was in kindergarden, making up phrases and quotes that I just felt, from the heart. I continued in third grade when my teacher read a poem and I liked the flow and rhyme. Since then, I decided to combine both efforts. Starting from my pre-teen years it was more of a lyrical influence from the music I got into. Everything.