When did you consider poetry?

[tun]

Have you always read it?
Was it an accident?
Did you pick it up in school?
From a significant other?

I've always listened to music and never considered it poetry.  I've read poems in classes and never considered them musical.  A girl once told me my life was a poem, I was a lost boy, and after 10 years of writing music I found this poetry website, had all my stuff picked apart and found a new love for form poetry.  

When did you snap?  Was it a flurry?  A puzzle? An exercise?  Ive met people who like writing reading and reciting poems but I still don't understand it.

I have never read what is conventionally understood as poetry. For me poetry is a mode of perception; the apprehension of unity in speech. The way I got into that, was by memorizing and reciting passages that I read that seemed to stand alone, as ecstatic moments, even if they were contained in a larger text of prose, of either fiction or non fiction.