Greetings, @vitkolesnik! Here is my entry:

https://steemit.com/poetsunited/@crescendoofpeace/most-charitable-poetry-contest-1-speaking-my-truth-original-poetry

I've been writing poetry since childhood, as both of my parents loved poetry, and introduced us to a wide variety from an early age. They were also both pianists, and our home was always filled with music, so my brain clicks into that gear very easily.

I had all but stopped writing poetry for many years, when a trip to the Florida Keys in 1997 with friends, and my first encounter with the devastation of the reefs outside the protected areas, made me determined to write about what I had experienced.

I signed up for an online course in writing short nonfiction, figuring that article writing would be how I got my message out, and a funny thing happened . . . my brain said, "Okay, you want to write short nonfiction? I'm switching to lyric poetry mode." ;-)

And write I did - like a madwoman - sometimes five, ten or more poems in a night, and they were actually decent . . . better than anything I had written before. I had found my groove. And I've continued writing poetry regularly ever since, interspersed with songs from time to time, and a whole lot of blog posts and articles as well

Here on Steemit, I write on a lot of different subjects, though for the first couple of months I mostly lurked and got my bearings.

Then @brokemancode started the Thirty Day Haiku Challenge, and being a long time lover of haiku, I jumped in, completed the challenge, and just kept going. Last night I posted my Day 174 haiku.

Thanks for this contest, and good luck to everyone who enters!