From then 'til now From as young as I can remember I have been writing poetry. I recall getting stuck on a theme of colourful flowers between the ages of 9 and 12, which needless to say stunted my literary growth. Now I'm not exactly old, but when I was young gay meant happy or joyous. I was astounded to learn some new things about flowers.
School is a bad time for writing poetry.
Little boys have a tendency to laugh at other little boys that do things that only little girls are supposed to do. I was laughed at for everything else, so I don't know why I was worried about poetry. Thus was my literary growth further pruned. Come to think of it, I didn't write any poetry at University either. By this time I guess I'm starting to look like a literary bonsai, so maybe I'll just skip to the time when I did feel the creative urges tugging at my keyboard.