When did you discover that you had a love for words?

When I was young I kept a Journal/Diary and i would write in it even if I didn't have anything to write about. I would always try to perfect my handwritting and it still looks crazy sometimes. Anyway that's when i knew i loved words, and rhyming them up.

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In the womb, but it was a different sort of words. lol

I've always been right brained.

Seriously lopsided and visibly so.

Right eye wide and taking in,

scribbling furiously hand on pen

but the words are illegible barely a line,

just loops and twirls and dots sometimes

before they form a conscious phrase,

boxing in these right brained ways.

to be dissected by left brain sorts

framed and squared and

put in a row

by rules, expectations and legal torts

Last edited by lightcourier 05-24-2009 at 02:43:09 AM

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For the love of words

This is how I'm remembering it all happening. When I was 6 or 7 my father used to read to my older brother and I, Zane Gray novels and other adventure books. We'd lay or sit on the floor beside his chair and listen to him read aloud until we started to fall asleep. We didn't have a Television until I was in High School, so this was a form of entertainment. When we started to snooze he'd send us off to bed. The next night we couldn't wait for him to relax in his chair after dinner and to begin reading to us again. I learned to love the written word right then. It stuck. It caused me to read to my own children when they were growing up, they'd beg me to read to them. I started them with the Rutabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg when they were 5 or 6. Which I did with great joy. remembering how my older brother and I used beg our dad to read us another story.



a poet friend
RH Peat

Last edited by RHPeat 05-18-2009 at 10:57:37 PM

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Words-as I was told-when I was young-put me in psychiatric counseling.Many,many years ago
to speak what was not allowed-eluded me.So, of course, I just got more shocking.We take our first breath,once pushed from the womb-my love of word...began with a scream-and that cry was my first word,and it will be my last.God and word are one in the same to me.

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Unknownpoet, that is a great way to put it. Classic I love it. As for me I don't ever remember a time when I could not read. I know I couldn't write before pre school, as I remember not knowing how and I remember learning how to write. But I can not remember at time when I couldn't read. Thats odd huh? My mother and my older sisters did read to me. I do remember being read to at a young age but I also remember making them hold the book where I could see it and following along with my mind. Maybe thats how I learned to read.....I remember when I was 5 I got a little pretend piano for Chistmas and I knew at that point that there was no Santa because I knew my mothers hand writing, she had wrote to suzie from santa. Anyway I taught myself to play chicago's color my world on my piano and i wanted to remember the words and i wrote them in crown on my bed room wall and got the spanking of a life time. Thats kinda funny that she failed to see the talent and intelligence of her 5 year old kid because she couldn't get over the writing on the wall. My mother still can't see the writing on the wall for what it is.

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Originally Posted by lightcourier

In the womb, but it was a different sort of words. lol

I've always been right brained.

Seriously lopsided and visibly so.

Right eye wide and taking in,

scribbling furiously hand on pen

but the words are illegible barely a line,

just loops and twirls and dots sometimes

before they form a conscious phrase,

boxing in these right brained ways.

to be dissected by left brain sorts

framed and squared and

put in a row

by rules, expectations and legalistic torts

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Originally Posted by cousinsoren

Originally Posted by lightcourier

In the womb, but it was a different sort of words. lol

I've always been right brained.

Seriously lopsided and visibly so.

Right eye wide and taking in,

scribbling furiously hand on pen

but the words are illegible barely a line,

just loops and twirls and dots sometimes

before they form a conscious phrase,

boxing in these right brained ways.

to be dissected by left brain sorts

framed and squared and

put in a row





by rules, expectations and legalistic torts

Hi Courier,
THIS CONFESSION OF YOURS IS A BLOOMER! --lol. Can't take you on as a friend just yet, "too many irons in the fire" Next time. In the meantime, between time , if you want to learn more about my country, Jamaica, procure a copy of my novel , ROAD TO DAMASCUS. Source :www.amazon. Good journey with your poetry. One of these days I'll do a Review for this website.




THIS YOUR EXPLANATION IS AN EXCELLENT CONFESSION IN PERFECT VERSE- LOL. HAVE YOU BEEN READING SHAKESPEARE ????

Last edited by cousinsoren 05-18-2009 at 12:01:17 PM

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Last edited by cousinsoren 05-18-2009 at 03:43:21 PM

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I wrote a poem about my love of words, I think I shall go post it now...

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Hmmm, let's see...since I was in junior high school. I was always the spelling bee champ. My mom said I used to read everything I could get my hands on, and it's true. To this day, if I'm in the bathroom and I'm kinda bored, I will sit there and read the back of the shampoo bottle or something just for the sake of having something to read. I also started writing in junior high school. Aced all my English classes...all my teachers said I had "potential". For some reason I used to hate that word. I still love to write, unless I have a wicked case of writer's block, which I'm suffering from now.

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Hey Light courier

You got one really strange brain.

-------------------
"I've always been right brained.
Seriously lopsided and visibly so.
Right eye wide and taking in,
scribbling furiously hand on pen"
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It is the right eye that is controlled by the left brain;
and the left eye that is controlled by the right brain.
Are you sure you didn't have your left eye open?

Or then again it might have been your third eye wide open.
But then you did say you were seriously lopsided,
so maybe it was your right eye.
That would definitely be the cause
of a very strange anatomy for sure.


Later a poet friend
RH Peat

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Through the unmistakable burn and pain of loss.....my 1st GF died of a heart condition when I was 14 and I needed someway to express my feeling, someway to give form to my emotions....one day they just came out in a very short poem......the rest as they say is history lol.......now poetry is one of the only true avenues directly to the unsheathed heart of my feelings.....probably the only one......all other paths require enduring the thorns, climbing the walls, and passing the flames lol

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I wanted to be like a Motley Crue Poet
Make up and leather

Like a Nikki Sixx, and Gene Simmons Poet
Scare the shit out of people,lol

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Originally Posted by RHPeat

Hey Light courier

You got one really strange brain.

-------------------
"I've always been right brained.
Seriously lopsided and visibly so.
Right eye wide and taking in,
scribbling furiously hand on pen"
-------------------

It is the right eye that is controlled by the left brain;
and the left eye that is controlled by the right brain.
Are you sure you didn't have your left eye open?

Or then again it might have been your third eye wide open.
But then you did say you were seriously lopsided,
so maybe it was your right eye.
That would definitely be the cause
of a very strange anatomy for sure.


Later a poet friend
RH Peat

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I've always been a good witer. Ever since I was a child, people used to tell me that I was good. I nearly wrote a book and am finishing another one.

I like rock and roll the best!

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Wow, there are SO many talented and thought provoking people on this site...no chance of suffering from brain death any time soon if you all continue asking these interesting questions! And I am having a ball trying to answer, as well as posing questions of my own...Write on!!!

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I remember always being the outsider in school as far back as elementary. I was never really like the other kids and because of that, I was picked on and bullied from time to time. I embraced the isolation I was forced into by writing! I would go out during recess, find a corner by the playground fence to sit in and write. I wrote about how I was feeling, I wrote about the people that were either my friends or my enemies, I'd even write about crushes, home living and nature! Now that I'm 31, of course I have a "plethora" of poems that I've written that has carried the burden of bearing my every emotion, mood, and desire on their backs. It's proven to be a way of escape and also a coping mechanism in my life. My words come from the deepest, and most real and honest part of me just as I'm sure they come from each one of you also.

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When I was very young. I loved writing, anything, I would just sit and write letters on paper trying to make up words. LOL. I had a love for words, writing poems and songs to my parents, you know how it's valentines and you get the red paper and write out what the teacher helps you to say. Every holiday, birthday, and even just for no reason, I would love to woo anybody with what I wrote. I love giving poems just because, people remember it the most. Expression is a wonderful thing, But watch how you say it. I would love to be a writer someday.

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hmmmm!

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I have a love/hate relationship with writing.

I first started writing as a young teen, I had grow up fast and had no other way to get stuff off my chest. Along the years Ive relied on writing to get me through things more and more. I seem to have developed a mental block for being able to process my emotions without it anymore unless they are clear cut and clear, which is a very rare occurrence.
I dont believe that its the best way to deal with things necessarily, but its proven to work for me and stood the test of time so that must surely amount to something on the "love scale" for writing.
Its a rarity for me to be able to write about something happy however. Most of my work is on a mid plane or just down right morbid as far as emotion goes. My mental imbalances are likely to blame because Ive been so screwed up all of my life, choosing to be a social hermit is probably another attribute which adds to it as well.



good thread here. It seems we all come from many arrays of life, both the high ends and the lows. Funny how articles of words can give us such middle ground to remain on in turbulent times.

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I can't ever remember not loving words. My parents read to me from birth. I was a fussy baby and the only times I was quiet was when my parents drove me around in the car or read to me. Reading was cheaper, LOL. Whatever they were reading was what they read aloud to me. Mom tells me that one time, she decided to see how long I would be still and listen. Her voice gave out before I got restless. Dad had a vague concept of what was appropriate for a small child, though, and I can remember having nightmares for weeks after he read Beowulf to me as a bed-time story. (I was six at the time.)

I do remember not being able to write and being so worried that no one was going to teach me that I spent one summer teaching myself. Then, in first grade, I got in trouble because I could both print and write in cursive and I wasn't supposed to know how yet.

Someone mentioned reading the Ruttabaga Stories to their kids now...WOW, still my favorite set of read aloud stories and my go-to gift for anyone I know having a baby.

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I am a rare and unique breed. Although I can get lost in a dictionary or thesaurus for hours (even days) on end, I absolutely hate to read; for I do not comprehend. My love of words comes from spelling them and I believe that all started when I learned the rhythmic beat of MIssIssIppI. Even as I speak or think, I spell the words in my head; making sure I have it right. Sometimes spelling a specific word over and over again gets stuck in my head until it doesn't make sense anymore and I think I don't know how to spell it. I would go crazy if I could not look it up and find out if I was correct or not. May sound funny, but not when that happens with the word "the"! LOL (and it has... shhh~)