Here are mine from 9 and 10 years

Here I Am To Shine

I'm a princess and fine
when I dance I tap my feet
Everyone tells me I look
so neat
My bedroom is so clean
and pretty as I even
have my own kitty
so I wake up feeling happy

That was my first poem...ever

Here one after this poem

I Am A Bird

I am a bird that is flying
so I will be flying across the sea
later I will fly around a tree
tomorrow I will take in the grass
after my break I will go back
and fly

Then ones from like 13 years

Simplicity

Stars, hearts, squares, diamonds.
Let me lay in bed, getting at me.
Trying to let me wonder what led me to this,
this beautiful, simply beautiful life.

Then suddenly I wake up someday,
looking deep inside of these shapes.
And how the light that shines through them is bright,
lets me smile at all of the small things that
are invisible to the human eye and are smaller than germs.

They are only a speck,
yet are so marvelous,
so miraculous,
and so simple,
that it matters the most.

Simplicity at its finest...
is the bright light
of this wonderful life. Indeed

Dreamland Castle

Rainbow castle fascinating detail
Turned into a rave of rhythm
Where dreams are in a lot of hue
Friends join hands fiends are gone
Neon lights are essential
Glow sticks are glowing
We are dancing on the dance floor
This is our dreamland dance club
We are feeling ecstatic and euphoric
Electronic dance music is playing
It's an all night techno dance party
In a raver's dreamland castle


So what are yours? When did you start writing...?
My earliest poem on this site is Affectionate Heart...which I wrote at 15...
but I wrote these few before then...

"Simplicity" has possibilities with a little editing.

What does that mean? I know, they aren't very good considering I just started writing poetry then...

It means that I think you did a good job on it. It's a mature write for a young person, and may just need a little editing to be a keeper.

OK, Gotcha. I thought it was an insult at first...Thanks xD

I don't do insults..only honest assessments.

That is good. Insults are pointless, honesty is helpful.

i think i've blocked out most of my early years...i was only four when i wrote my first poem. i got in trouble for rhyming in 1st grade. the word was "duck", and i got carried away(probably why i stick mainly to free verse)....i do remember my daughter's first poem, though, and i thought it was incredibly insightful...here it is:

the wind
by sevyn robinson

i can feel the wind,
but it doesn't feel like anything.

i don't remember back that far, too many years to take into consideration haha i think my first legitimate poem was about the ocean (big shocker there) and it was for my mom...she probably still has it packed away in one of her keepsake boxes

cathy.robinson wrote:

the wind by sevyn robinson i can feel the wind, but it doesn't feel like anything.

There is something so pure and deep about that. Very nice.

I have a few old "things" around..but I will not post any of them even if you beg. Especially if you beg.

what about groveling? or bribery? bribery is always good, there's cash involved...

Hmm..I may consider a bribe.

i have exactly $3.67 in my checking account, it's all yours...

Buy yourself some coffee. I would rather not embarrass myself.

I wish I had my poetry from when I was a kid. I remember one was called "I, Lonely," a recital of which won my brother a talent contest once. That was when I was about 13 and he was 11. The only line I remember was the last, which was "forever laughs the pawn." Hey, I still like that line!

I still have poems I wrote in 1984, when I was young, invincible, and wise. I'm not sure what happened to me since then.

I started writting when I was like 12 in Spanish.

In highschool I became serious about it, a Spanish teacher took me under his wing and taught me the basics about rhyme, rhythm, so I kept going. By 17 I had about 3000 poems. I kept all of them, even the lousy ones. One day a girlfriend I had borrowed them from me, few days later we broke up, and she burned all of them. All my poems were lost.
I started writting in English a couple of months before I joined GP, my first 2 poems in English are posted in the finished section.

Yeah I just really started a year ago although I wrote some beforehand. My teacher never taught me anything I read it all online...

and...

What the.....?!? Why would your girlfriend burn your work?

PinkNeonFlavor wrote:

Yeah I just really started a year ago although I wrote some beforehand. My teacher never taught me anything I read it all online... and... What the.....?!? Why would your girlfriend burn your work?

Well I ended our relationship, and she got so mad... She was, maybe still is, a Natural born b***h- *There he said it, he wasn't going to, but he did - he wants to take it back, but is too late the words are out there now*

My first poem:

Rain falls from a cloudy sky
I splash in the puddles nearby.
If it rains, the worms come out
And if they don't, they'll die.

(Apparently my emo phase started in the 1st grade.)