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Love Letters and Teenage Boys  

Teyjj 56M
2572 posts
1/8/2013 3:57 pm

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1/18/2013 7:08 am
Love Letters and Teenage Boys

Having just read a post Posting Letters The Unkempt Secret from Kukoocock and seeing where he mentions never having written a love-letter, I was reminded of my -age years. That is when I started writing love-letters and poetry to girls. Most times they were never delivered.

It’s a practice I continued as I grew older since I was always too shy to tell a girl how I really felt. I have written a lot of<b> poems </font></b>to girls, about girls, and for girls. I even wrote<b> poems </font></b>to my wife before we got married, but I only found out just before our wedding that she had kept a collection of the ones written for her.

Anyway, Kukoo’s post reminded me of my years when, having transferred to an up-scale high school, I started missing the girls that a I shared a class-room with. One particular girl was named Jasmine, who was unfortunate enough to be seated at the same desk that I was fortunate enough to share with her.

Having transferred to an all-boy school, in the throes of my sorrow, I started writing love-letters and<b> poems </font></b>to her. I would then ask my best-friend (at the time I thought he was) to take these to classes and deliver them to her. Am I slick or what?

A few years later I found out what would take place with my romantic attempts, and possibly, why I never got any play from these ladies that I desired so much.

I found out that my so-called friend (There’s a movie by that name; not mine though) would stand in front of the class and read my<b> poems </font></b>or my letters and then he and my other friends and the entire class would laugh and make fun of my attempts at being romantic.

Well, by the time I had found out it was too late for me to be embarrassed and, considering how life turned out for him and me, I now kinda find it hilarious. And, who knows, it might have been the birth of a great poet.

It’s too early to tell though!


hotsandy5 49F
10514 posts
1/8/2013 7:52 pm

 That, brought me good memories of my childhood.
A única alegria isenta de amargura é a de bem proceder.


kukoocock 54M
5836 posts
1/9/2013 2:50 am

 Thanks for the mention Teyjj.

I'd like to qualify that, though I never wrote a love letter I have carved many girls names in the bark of trees so in a way I did write something to those hidden loves. It hard to post trees also.

Your 'friend' was a boll*x IMO for doing that. I had one just like that too, needless to say when I realised what a swine he was I saw the light.


There are two kinds of light, the glow that illuminates & the glare that obscures. James Thurber


goodatpoetry2 74M
16552 posts
1/9/2013 3:26 am

 I've never written a love letter, but poems are so different. I've written hundreds!
Like you, most of them were kept to myself. The ones I did deliver were usually appreciated, but not always.
I'm surprised that your "friend" didn't use them himself for his own gain.


Teyjj 56M
4122 posts
1/9/2013 7:49 pm
    Quoting hotsandy5:
    That, brought me good memories of my childhood.
It's good memories for me now, but back then, when I first found out I was so embarrassed that I forgot to be angry!


Teyjj 56M
4122 posts
1/9/2013 7:51 pm
    Quoting  :
Wouldn't surprise me. He got meaner as we got older. Became a bully and a really horrible person.


Teyjj 56M
4122 posts
1/9/2013 7:53 pm
    Quoting kukoocock:
    Thanks for the mention Teyjj.

    I'd like to qualify that, though I never wrote a love letter I have carved many girls names in the bark of trees so in a way I did write something to those hidden loves. It hard to post trees also.

    Your 'friend' was a boll*x IMO for doing that. I had one just like that too, needless to say when I realised what a swine he was I saw the light.
Unfortunately, for me, I think I was so desperate to fit in that I couldn't see him for what he really was, even after seeing how he treated those who couldn't fight back.


Teyjj 56M
4122 posts
1/9/2013 7:54 pm
    Quoting kukoocock:
    Thanks for the mention Teyjj.

    I'd like to qualify that, though I never wrote a love letter I have carved many girls names in the bark of trees so in a way I did write something to those hidden loves. It hard to post trees also.

    Your 'friend' was a boll*x IMO for doing that. I had one just like that too, needless to say when I realised what a swine he was I saw the light.
I think those trees are grateful that the stamps wouldn't stick!


Teyjj 56M
4122 posts
1/9/2013 7:57 pm
    Quoting goodatpoetry2:
    I've never written a love letter, but poems are so different. I've written hundreds!
    Like you, most of them were kept to myself. The ones I did deliver were usually appreciated, but not always.
    I'm surprised that your "friend" didn't use them himself for his own gain.
I think he was too lazy to rewrite them and he couldn't pass off my writing as his own (I was rather 'anal' about the beauty of my writing. At the time, I never completed anything if it had any sort of error; I would always start over.)


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