Volume 9 , Issue 11

Can't Write Poetry

I wrote a poem once. It was back in my junior or senior year at Alva High ('65 or '66). I wrote it for an english class and if I remember correctly the english teacher's name was Doris Huguely. She sent it to some poem contest for me. It's been over 40 years ago since that time and my memory is a bit foggy of that poem. The title of the poem was "I Can't write Poetry."

It went something like this... "I can't write poetry to save my soul. The lines don't rhyme and the words ain't so...."

That is all this NW Okie can remember of her high school poem written some time during the 1964 or 1965 school year at Alva High. I Can't even remember what award I won, but I did get a certificate. That certificate, like the poem, is lost to the winds of time.

Besides being lost to the winds of time, my mother did not save any of my high school memorabilia.

I have always wondered if Alva High kept copies of students poems, etc... from '64 to '66!? It would probably be like finding a needle in a haystack, huh? Ain't old age horrible sometimes? LOL
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