the student taught me

it is a student of mine that started me off on poetry...

he was brilliant at math and at poetry too! i was good at math teaching and wanting to write poems. but i would wonder, 'is this poetry, what i write?!' then i spoke to him once and he said, 'just write!' . the way he said it, it gave me the motivation and i just started.

...and words just flowed out and would not stop..