A year ago I was sitting in my room dropping out of college I found a pen and an old notebook which I got for my creative writing class in high school So I picked it up, unsure of what was going to happen but I wrote a poem called in my dreams without meaning to Dude, poetry is gay but It seemed I had a taste for it a week later I was writing to drown out the sound of my roommate fighting with his girlfriend and the couple was born
I was a secret drop out I even made up a class schedule so I would go at varying hours on varying days to any cafe which had cheap coffee and free wifi and I would write these ****** little poems saved in a google docs folder called poetry I used to ***** around on the web too much stuff like stumbleupon and I found all of you beautiful sons of ******* a strange old website called hellopoetry.com facebook for those young or foolish enough to call themselves poets I was skeptical I’ve never been a fan of other writers in my atmosphere but I’ll be ****** If I didn’t fall in love with the ***** old dog I wrote and I wrote and I wrote I may not have been the best but you can’t spell prolific without pro and when I finally hit 100,000 views it was like losing my virginity all over again only not as awkward and drunk
I’ve been pottering around on here for a year now and every person who read my work every angel which clicked follow Got to see me bang my head against the keyboard in dark rooms on even darker days and they’ve seen some of my best work definitely some of my worst and I’ve met some genuinely great people along the way I only hope that you all know who you are So let’s raise a glass to the year passed and celebrate a bunch of wild poet… things and here’s to another year of weird little poems
To all of you awesome ******* - thanks for helping me get to where I am today. Thanks for the chance at being a part of a community. Thanks for posting stuff which kicked my stuff's ***. Thanks for the motivation and support. Thank you. - Harry J. Baxter