Sunday, December 1, 2019

The Rise Of A Prodigy: Beginning, Continuation And Memories From The Lost Poetic Writings

The Rise Of A Prodigy: Beginning, Continuation And Memories From The Lost Poetic Writings

I began writing poems at the age of 13. At the "Holy Cross Comboni Primary School", in Yirol.

  Most of the poems were centered on my family, my future, & later from the ages of 15 to 17, I wrote about the girls I admired in friendships. 


All these compositions of about 60 poems and songs;  I lost them subsequently, through misplacements.  Between 18 to 21, during high school; I never engaged in composing poems and songs.



At the age of 22, my interest was reignited after one year of civil war outbreak; by December, 2013 in the capital city Juba, South Sudan.   



Most of my poems became political until now; then I changed to empowering the individual aspirations through positive writing. 
However, the first poem I wrote at age 13, was about my mother, how she struggled to raise me with my siblings and still was able to support the extended family.



Unfortunately, I lost the poem after one week of keeping it among my school books.
The only person  who read about the poem was my  class mistress; who taught me both English as a second language and my native Jieng language.



But she instructed me to write the poem in my language, "Thuongjang" from Muonyjaang of Sudan. 
I still remember little about my writings; because I didn't spend enough time during my teenage years; to memorize and recite them.



Wakefully, I have kept track of my poetic writings from the age of 22 in 2015, until now.

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