This first post is really an introduction post, an icebreaker.

I like poetry, reading it, writing it, and apparently, some of things I write, I've gotten complete strangers to enjoy. So, I've decided to expand to a broader audience and see if other people enjoyed as well. I decided to call this blog the twisted girl because I apparently have a twisted writing style, so yay! I'm not great with titling anything when I need to, and while poems are generally allowed to go untitled, blogs probably are not.

I would like this blog to not just be me writing poetry, but also maybe discuss other people's poetry, dismantle some of the things I've written, go over the what makes a "good" poem, and maybe some discussions.

For instance, whose opinion matters more? The audience's opinion or the author's? What makes any poem a good poem?

It isn't just emotional quality of the person writing it, because I know personally I've written things in a space of five minutes, and had arguments with people, where I was saying it was complete crap, and they were saying it was gold. And then I would have something I spent over 2 and a half hours on, based on one of my favorite children's stories, that I would read every night before I went to bed, and no one would ever say a word.

So, emotional quality of the person writing it does not always matter.

I hope people enjoy, and I hope I can keep up with this. After I get this established, if anyone would like to maybe suggest their favorite poems, I would love to check them out! Hopefully...Thanks so much for reading! I hope this is a successful experiment!