Guys! As you might have guessed
it already, I am going to tell you the story of how I wrote my first poem. Technically
it was not my first poem, in fact I am not sure how many poems I wrote before
this one, but I am sure about one thing, they all s**ked! So my first poem …
right!..
It was a winter morning, the
class was shaking of the crispy snowflakes attached to the window railing, I
was watching the pupil come in to the class one by one through the frosted
window, wrestling the weather and dodging the snow balls…. Oh! Who am I
Kidding, There was no snow, no snow flakes and it was a summer, a damn hot one
too. And if these guys were wrestling and dodging anything they were the
bullies and their unmerciful punches. I will just tell the dull story of my
first poem and about the narrative I have been watching ‘How I met your Mother’
Damn… Good….
So as I said earlier, it was an
average summer day in an average south Indian school, in an more than average neighborhood,
in fact it was so average that the only neighbors we had were the unmistakably
terribly old residential apartments and the crazy ole lady that lived in one of
them, I will talk about her some other day, seriously guys I am jumping around
a lot with this story. SO We had our English lecture for the first hour that
day and my our lecturer Mrs. (I don’t know
a another very old lady, not crazy though) had asked us to write a poem and
bring. Shall we call her Mrs. Lecturer? Okay! So as I said Mrs. Lecturer has
asked us to bring about a poem. And to top it all up our poem would get read by
a random person in the class.
So I had a buddy who used to sit
next to me all the time and whom I particularly love because he used to be take
the major share of the beating because he was a tiny bit fat a little slower
than me. I just ran away and he got beaten up, I would come back a little later
to check on him with a tissue. So as she had asked us to write a poem and so
far (taking my friends account then), I s**ked at it. We had only hardly a few
minutes left before she would pop up in the class and treat a bunch of 10
graders like kindergarteners and kick them around. We were scared of her,
really SCARED! So as I said my friend who took the beating for me turned to me
asked to write him a poem. Yeah! Sure! He always stuck out for me and I always
let him down, but seriously guys! A poem in five minutes is hard enough, now I had
to write two.
So anyway I decided to write two,
two poems. And I have absolutely no idea what I wrote, But I wrote two poems. I
have a bleak memory that one was about winter and life and the other was ‘The
Poets’. The one about the winter was kind of nice, or so I thought, It was a
very sophisticated piece of words with nice hard to guess words, you
practically needed a dictionary to read that poem and the other was in simple
terms, really simple. So Somehow I finished and I gave him the Poets and
explained the meaning of the poem to him, Okay there was nothing to explain, It
was something like ‘Poets are Crazy’ themed. But anyhow I really liked the winter
poem and thought this will be my great break through, I could even imagine the whole
class standing up in appreciation and giving a great ceremony in honour and all
those things, the girls asking for autographs, Okay! I admit I was a bit
carried away.
So all that was about to be crushed,
pooh! She called out my friends name and he went in with a paper clutched to
his hand, Oh I forgot she forgot to mix the papers between friends, she just
asked us to read our poems. So as I said he went in and recited out ‘The Winter
Poem’ and explained how crazy poets are. I don’t think anyone listened but Mrs.
Lecturer, she threw him out and asked him to run around the school, the first
he did happily and the second he did not do. So then I was left with the poem ‘
that I wrote for him, Nope I did not get a standing ovation, She said I could sit
in the class, As if I wanted that but then that got me into poetry and I have
did good since then.
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SO guys! That the story of How I
wrote my first poem, and for the guy! He kind of did not like me sitting and he
being out, once the class was over he trashed me, and now I had Another Bully
to dodge and I had no one to share a beating with till I met ‘Abby’, Oh! That’s
one story that’s full of lies and even if you like this one or not, I am going
to make you listen to that one too, watch me!
And if by any odd chance you
liked this one, give a comment!