Poetry : First Love
By Akshat Tyagi
@akshat007 (156)
New Delhi, India
October 17, 2015 3:43pm CST
Everyone has atleast once in his lifetime composed a few lines for a special someone, a beautiful day, to mark an occasion, a toast or just to put his/her feelings into words. So what were your first few couplets(not in the strict sense :P) as a poet and what spurred you on :)
A snippet of my first attempt :
See the clouds drift
Broken like a glass
But they madly swoon
Blinded by the full moon.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
17 Oct 15
I was writing stories but not poems for many years but creative writing workshops tend to favour poetry as it is quicker to read through so I eventually started writing verse too. My first ever line was 'Love, where is thy cave? Where do you hide?'.
It got worse after that.
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@akshat007 (156)
• New Delhi, India
17 Oct 15
Haha i am still a novice here. But looking back at our own work in future amazes us. Do recommend some good poets to take inspiration from.
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
17 Oct 15
@akshat007 William Blake, Milton, Shakespeare, Byron, Coleridge, Carol Anne Duffy, Christine Rossetti, Roger McGough, John Cooper-Clarke, Whitman, many more
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@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Oct 15
@akshat007 Check out US poet, Billy Collins too, for plainspoken and profound verse.
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@xstitcher (33483)
• Petaluma, California
19 Oct 15
Nice! :) Great to see another poet here. :) Interesting you used the word "snippet". The kinds of "snippets" I have done (by definition) have been things of thirty words or less--counting the words in your verse--which are less than thirty--perhaps that's what you meant?
@xstitcher (33483)
• Petaluma, California
19 Oct 15
Oh, my, I've written a gazillon snippets, @akshat007 --;) I'll have to write a new one. :)
@akshat007 (156)
• New Delhi, India
19 Oct 15
Yes I meant so but didn't think it would catch someone's attention. Nice catch :)
So do you have a snippet to share 
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
25 Oct 15
When i was in high school and also in collage i used to scribe lines on paper but it never occurred to me i can keep them and so i ended up throwing them away and i cannot remember them now
@akshat007 (156)
• New Delhi, India
25 Oct 15
Me too !!! Scribbles all along the columns. Small starts ;)
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