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The Identity Firewall: Why Your First Poem Sets You Free

The Identity Firewall: Why Your First Poem Sets You Free

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Jul 13, 2025
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"To write poetry is to be alive twice" Czesław Miłosz

On June 30, I asked a simple question in our Power of Poetry community:

"What was the first poem you ever wrote?"

The responses flooded in, over twenty poets sharing memories that ranged from crystal-clear recollections to confessions of complete amnesia.

Christopher Wolf
admitted his first poem existed "so long ago neither memory nor record exists."
Francesca Bossert
remembered hers vividly: "Wolf," written as a personal credo to overcome illness. Between these extremes lay a revelation that changed how I understand poetry's deepest purpose

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