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nichola_louise Junior Member
since 2002-08-17
Posts 24Adelaide, Australia |
I was just wondering how old everyone is in here and how old you were when you started writing poetry. |
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secretlife Member
since 2002-07-30
Posts 359Grean Earth ,,, |
hiy dear nichola_louise,, How are you? Well,, I am 19 years old and I started when I was 11 years old.... But why u wana know that..whats the point.. Tell me what about u dear...any way nice to meet you, hope to read something from ur poetry... Hugesssss Secretlife, (Easy come,,Easy go) |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
I'm 32 and started writing when I was 10. My first poem was about a rose I put on my mother's casket. |
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Street Poet Member
since 2002-07-07
Posts 82 |
I'm 18, and I started writing poetry at 14 to express the way I was feeling at the time |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Nichola, we have several Forums in Discussion for questions such as this which are not framed poetically  . I will move this over to our Discussion forum and place it under PipTalk Lounge, where it can continue to receive answers. |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Now, to answer the question!  I'm the age of everyone's mother...or grandmother, in some instances; and I knew I wanted to write when I was seven years old. I also knew at that age that I didn't know enough to write. So I tucked my little seed of desire way down inside, and decided that I would make small attempts here and there [did some writing in my teens] and thought "No, still not old enough", and about three years ago, I let my muses out. They haven't let me down since.Good question! |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Hi, I am 28... but my age varies with what I write... sometimes I write like a 40 year old, and at other times like a 20 year old... my "writer age" depends if at the moment of writing I go through deep thought chains, or emotional moments... I usually finish a write within 15 to 45 minutes of having started... and hardly rework... at least one of those is a bad habit  and as far as when I started, frankly I can't remember, but the first one I read/showed out to a few close friends must have been when I was around 19... I used to write in bits and pieces, I guess and kept losing everything, but I hardly cared ... My first poem here was the first ever shown to so many (then) unknown people... and now I have here a circle of friends... all because of poetry... well... I am chattering away... so I must stop... Regards, Sudhir |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
I would have the same query as "secretlife", but you need not answer the question. I can imagine several reasons and any one of them will do. I will offer this, however. Your reading of other's poetry is going to be influenced by what you know about them. Is that a good thing? You'll find that sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. I prefer to read the poetry, and a good deal of it, before I "meet" the person. Their poetry may be more challenging to understand, but I will have made fewer assumptions about it. |
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Anvrill Senior Member
since 2002-06-21
Posts 710in the interzone now |
I'm 19, though I act a hell of a lot older and more mature than my older boyfriend. (If he wants y' t' know, he'll state his age. )Been writing poetry since I was 10. Or at least, seriously writing it. I cringe to think about what 'seriously' was then.  Scary, scary, scary. It really peaked when I was 14, then went to something like one poem a month, and it's starting to peak again.i'll be waiting for you |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
i am ageless like wind swept sand, timeless like the sea, i have been breathing poetry since birth, my lyrics, the entire worth of me |
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Marshalzu  
since 2001-02-15
Posts 2681Lurking |
I'm 19 and starting writing when I was 17 actually scratch that, I haven't started writing yet I haven't finished living and learning. Visit my forums @ http://chronicles.proboards4.com/index.cgi |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
I'm 25.... And I started writing when I was in 7th grade, whatever age that was. I wrote before, all the way from 2nd grade, but my first attempt at poetry was in 7th. The poem was called "to die entwined in the dark" and was about someone melting to bones and dust as an atom bomb went off just up the street. I was quite disturbed, I suppose. Mike (that boyfriend which Lori speaks of) |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
I'm 41---going on 12... and? I can't remember NOT reading--I may have been born with a book in my hand...and writing--since grade school. I've always loved poetry. |
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Dark Enchantress Senior Member
since 1999-07-27
Posts 1258meet Morgana |
In the flesh.. yes, in the flesh.. I'm 17. Birthed in the April tempest. I started to spill when I was 12 or 13. Sometimes you just fill the cup up too much.. and it's got to drip and slip.. "you don't need one of these to let me inside of you" T.A. |
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Jenn Cirrincione
since 2000-07-02
Posts 2107Fl |
I'm 19- 20 in December. I've been writing for almost as long as I can remember, writing poetry as far back as 15 yrs old. Why is it that we are at our most ingenius only when trying to destroy the things that keep us alive and thriving? |
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Toad Member
since 2002-06-16
Posts 161 |
39, the first poem I remember writing was 27 years ago. |
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Alexia
since 2001-06-07
Posts 164Sweet And Sassy |
I'm 17, and I started writing when I was like 11 but I dont really share my poems i've only posted like one, b/c I can never finish a poem. I don't know why. Maybe b/c i have other things on my mind. who knows Alexia *Love might not make the world go round but it's what makes the ride worth while* |
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wranx Member Elite
since 2002-06-07
Posts 3689Moved from a shack to a barn |
I'm 50ish (that's 107 in wranx years), I started to write about 10 months ago. Not sure why, forgot how to paint, I guess. In reply to "which way do we go?", the answer was never "straight", but, "progressively forward". |
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brian sites Senior Member
since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475usa |
32 and 21 and hike? (soon) |
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Paul Wilson
since 2002-07-07
Posts 4711United States |
High nichola_louise You seem to have had quite a few replies to your question, so why don't you share your age with us as we have with you. I am in my mid-fifties in years but young at heart. I wrote my first poem on 12-24-99 as a gift to my wife for Christams. Writting never entered my mind before then, it just came to me like a gift from God and he said write, which I did. |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
I just turned 22 on July 28. Been trying to write for approx 3 years. |
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kaile
since 2000-02-06
Posts 5146singapore |
turning 22 soon...started writing seriously when i was 20.. |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
nichola_louise, Well...I'm half way to 105. I attempted writing as a newlywed at the age of 19. When the hysterical response to my attempt at romantacism died down I mostly gave up. Wrote very sporadically until last September 10. PiP's what a God send for me. And your age would be...? If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
I am 22, god am i old. I started writing at 14, teenage angst was my first muse. Now I am 22 and I am still hormonely imbalanced. The sum of the angles of that rectangle is too monstrous to contemplate! |
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PhaerieChild Senior Member
since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787Aloha, Oregon |
I'm 46, been told I look 36 and I feel 26. Been writing off and on since 1968, I was 12. Spent alot of time during teen years writing out my frustrations. Now I only write when the mood strikes and that hasn't happened for awhile  My muse keeps vacationing and never leaves me any fodder for the thoughts.There's the man I chose. There's my territory.....Shakira |
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Riley
since 2002-07-18
Posts 1038in the pouring rain |
I am only 13 and have been writing for as long as I can remeber for now. I started writing over the summer because things got a little stressful and well what better way to express than through poetry. I do not sound like a young teen because I do not feel as such. But yet I am. Check out some of my writing, that sounds like I am worthy of my age. To the world you maybe a person, but to a person you maybe the world |
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Greeneyes
since 2000-09-09
Posts 9903In Your Poetic Mind |
LOL 30 something writing for 12 years.... ~~~ Brian Madden~  OMGosh you are old.....can I loan you a walking cane???  (teasing you) The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds strewn across a blue blanket I lean against the wind pretend I am weightless and in this moment I am happy [This message has been edited by Greeneyes (08-23-2002 10:18 PM).] |
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paper doll Member
since 2002-08-04
Posts 133Floating on Uncertainty |
I'm 18 and told I look a hell of a lot older. I started writing when I was 9 or 10 but have loved the English language since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Imagination=nostalgia for the past, the absent; it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshots of reality. |
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Child of the Stars
since 2000-09-07
Posts 1658Ann Arbor, MI |
I'm 16...been writing tidbits of nothing since I was 12 or so, then started -really- letting loose at 14. Go angst! ~Carly "Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions." |
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Tamma
since 2000-01-17
Posts 794In His Arms, Harpers Ferry, WV |
19 look about 15, act about 23...been writing since I was like 11 or 12... Have you ever heard that "No shirt, No shoes" rule? My question is...Why doesn't that rule include pants? |
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rascalx Senior Member
since 1999-08-25
Posts 590Florence, SC, USA |
I'm 34 years young and I have been writing since I was 15 - my first poem(s) was a series of short "secret admirer" verses sent to a "friend". Sadly, I didn't get the girl although she loved the poems; thus the writing bug bit me |
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Neala Member
since 1999-08-21
Posts 262Florida, USA |
I am 17, I started writing when I was 12-13 somewhere around there. |
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skyshine
since 2002-02-07
Posts 3058Beneath the northern stars |
I'm 20, look 16, and feel anywhere from 15-16 to...well, old! (But that's only because I hit 20, lol.) Started writing when I was 16 and thank God I did! Because I honestly don't know what I'd do without it.  --Beth Howl at the stars, whisper when you're sleeping, I'll be there to hold you, I'll be there to stop the chills and all the weeping. |
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catalinamoon
since 2000-06-03
Posts 9543The Shores of Alone |
Well, you must be young to ask. Us other generations, well we hate to admit..ok, I'm old. I've been writing since I was 15. Never really showed any of it to more than family until Pips, though. Sandra |
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Irie Senior Member
since 1999-12-01
Posts 1493Washington State |
I'm 29, for the third time, almost the fourth. LOL I think I wrote my first poem when I was about 8, but I never wrote again after that unitl I was in my teens. Then started up again about 2 years ago. You? ~Sheri |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
My birth certificate reads that i'm 28. Of course, most people tell me i look 18-19 and act like i'm twelve...  The oldest remnant of my writing comes from when i was 5, and wrote a bi-monthly family newspaper (with hand-drawn pictures and a fictional portion as well as "facts" lol). My mom has three issues worth as far as i know, and she's not sure if i just stopped there or she just didn't keep them. (I'm thinking the former, as i've always had problems finishing things...  ) |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
I mulled this over for about ten seconds... I liked Sunshines answer to age....I fall in that same realm.....but one very big difference.... I didn't start writing poetry until about 3 years ago....and then only sporadically until about two years ago... And you are how old? Started writing when? |
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MIdsummerRain Member
since 2002-05-19
Posts 175St. Louis, Missouri |
Turning 22 soon...Writting at 13 One day Men will look back & say |
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Trevor Senior Member
since 1999-08-12
Posts 700Canada |
Old enough to spend a twenty dollar bill at a bar and young enough to get asked for ID. ...well asked once in awhile...what are you all staring at...I look young for my age As far as writing poetry goes...I'll let you know when I learn how to. Thanks, Trev or |
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Kevin
since 1999-11-02
Posts 729Torrington, Ct, Usa |
20 Cant write |
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Elizabeth Cor Senior Member
since 2000-10-13
Posts 879Over the river and through the woods |
23 i dont remember /beginning/ to write, honestly (the same applies to drawing) seems i was born with a crayola in my hand … i know the addiction was healthy enough for my mom buy me a gorgeous new typewriter when i was in third grade, after wearing out her old one, and i was on that thing pounding away every afternoon. the first record of creation is a cassette tape of me, age two, chanting lines about a pet turtle. the strangest thing: it had rhythm and rhymed.... neither of which i currently possess /any/ talent for. (hehehe, rock, i liked the comic strips best… thank goodness your sense of humor has developed... *pause* ... nm.) |
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nichola_louise Junior Member
since 2002-08-17
Posts 24Adelaide, Australia |
Ok guys I will finally answer my own question I am eighteen, today actually I started writing a year ago after going on an Antioch weekend........where God showed me the gift of writing......I has helped me deal with things that have happened in my life that i previously bottled up... Anyway I wrote this thread and asked these questions because I like to have some idea of how long a person has been writing when i read their poems..... |
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Miah Senior Member
since 2002-08-26
Posts 1062Pennsylvania |
27 and holding.  |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Our youngest poet here at Passions is about 8, I believe... and the oldest is 91..  The rest of us fall somewhere in between, and are pretty much all ageless. Isn't it grand??..  |
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the_loner_23 Member Ascendant
since 2002-06-08
Posts 5479Jacksonville, Florida, USA |
I'm 23 and I started to write when I was in the 11th grade when I was 16. Had a lot of bad times then. Cold hands means a warm heart |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
This chicken be nineteen, but according to a psychological test, I'm only three. Innocent and always up to no good. I've been writing since I was three.  Are you scared? BOO! Are you now? |
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Android 17
since 2001-07-21
Posts 664Winnipeg |
*rides in on a mighty chocobo* *it rears up* Howdy, y'all! *sees the 19 year old chicken, and catches it* Hehehe...me? *kisses chicken* I'm only 16---got a problem with that? Here I am, I am your child...lying safe and warm. In your womb...for I am, the unwated life...... |
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cherish Senior Member
since 2001-03-25
Posts 1639swimming in fairy floss........... |
hahaha...you've got feathers stuck to your mouth Are you scared? BOO! Are you now? |
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Android 17
since 2001-07-21
Posts 664Winnipeg |
*swallows fearhers* :P Here I am, I am your child...lying safe and warm. In your womb...for I am, the unwated life...... |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
yuck  là où est mon amour? |
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Jenn Cirrincione
since 2000-07-02
Posts 2107Fl |
Ya'all don't be gross now. I'll be 20 in December. Writing since forever...actually going for poetry in the 10th grade. Why is it that we are at our most ingenius only when trying to destroy the things that keep us alive and thriving? |
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