Revisiting My AllPoetry Account

Finding inspiration in old (very old) work

Photo by Ksenia Makagonova on Unsplash

I’ve been thinking a lot about poetry lately and I suddenly remembered that I used to have an account on AllPoetry. Was it still there? Yes, yes it was. Could I log in? Also yes.

I thought I’d take a read of the 70 poems I had posted there from the ages of sixteen to eighteen. The experience turned out to be…