Personalized Poems

While searching on the internet, I came across a website called “My Personalized Poem.” Being the curious person that I am, I clicked on the link. It brought me to a page explaining what the website was about. This was a website where people could get a poem written about them for as little as $1.99! This interested me because I am a poet and I think that the site was a pretty good idea! But could they make any money?

This is what I needed to know, so I became a poet for the site. I waited and waited for a client, and then finally I got one! I went through the processes, wrote the poem to the clients specs, and then I was paid through PayPal . At first, I thought, “two measly dollars!”, but then I realized that I had made two dollars off of eight lines of work. I thought that was pretty good! Since the site is extremely new, not many people knew about it! I called friends and family and asked them to buy a poem. After ten referrals, My Personalized Poem gave me a ten dollar bonus, and I was not expecting that!

People often think that the love of poetry is dead. This site opened my eyes and made me realize that that is not necessarily true. People still need poetry for many reasons. This website is great because the clients that request the poems need them for school projects, for gifts, or they need them to publish on websites like Triond.com in order to make money. The clients actually own the rights to the poems that they buy, so there is no fear of their poem being posted on the internet or printed somewhere else.

I am just so incredibly happy that poetry is still in full swing. People write poetry everyday and it emits so much emotion. It means different things to different people, but no matter what, it is still needed. That is what makes me happy. Also, knowing that I can make someone’s life just a little bit brighter keeps me writing.