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2020 Writing Contest,  Poetry,  Relationships,  Writing

How I Became a Love Poet

By Emilia Castaneda, 17

I always wondered why so many poems were about love
Then one day I realized
Maybe it’s because all poets have met you
And like me–they never quite knew what to do with it


I wanted to capture the universality of love through the specificity of my personal feelings for someone. Love is felt differently by everyone but there’s still a fundamental quality about it that you only seem to notice when you feel it.

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Photo by Annie Spratt

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