A Thousand Words For You

Introduction

This is my thousandth poem on Vocal, by its nature, it has to be a free-form epic thank you to the ones who have made my time on Vocal special.

The music is "Thousands Are Sailing" by The Pogues because thousands of my words have sailed out across the world and this will be another thousand words for you, well maybe a few more.

I am going to construct it as a series of ten-syllable (each line) ABAB quatrains. 80

A Thousand Words For You

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For A Thousand Days, I Have Known You Well

And In All That Time, You Have Known Me Too

My Words Did Captivate You, I Can Tell

And I Am So Happy I'm Still With You

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When I Started On Vocal I Was Scared

Never Wrote Poems Since I Was At School

I Wondered If I Could Put Down The Words

Or Would The Readers Treat Me Like A Fool

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The First One I Tried I Got Very Wrong

Forgot To Enter Into The Challenge

I Saw What I'd Done, Felt Like A Moron

I Was Feeling Down, I Needed A Friend

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Then Someone Tipped Me Twice, Made Me Believe

That I Could Write, And My Work Was Worthwhile

They Made Me Trust In My Ability

Words Began To Flow, They Began To Smile

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On Vocal I Gained A Number Of Friends

One Inspired Me To My First Top Story

So I Wrote More With My Digital Pen

What Was Scarey Was Now Hunky Dory

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Started To Look For New Inspiration

Then Saw That I'd Found My Wonderful Muse

Her Words Gave Flight To My New Creations

So My Stories And Poems Grew And Grew

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One Poem Became Two Became Many

My First Was Free Form And Then A Sonnet

Acrostics, Limericks Then Came From Me

They Were The Start, There Was More to Come Yet

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No Vocal Place Was Out Of Bounds For Me

To Write, I Often Leave My Comfort Zone

I Hit Every Vocal Community

Although In Some I Could Only Write One

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My First Fictional Stories Were Horror

I Knew I Had To Go Further Than That

So My Work Became Positive And More

Ever Evolving Now That's Where I'm At

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This Is My Third Thousand Word Set Of Verse

I Know It Will Not Be My Final One

One Day I Will Write A Saga That Works

Believe Me When I Say There's More To Come

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Some Of My Poetry Are Now In Books

Stories Too Have Made It On To Paper

That Was An Ambition, And Now I Look

On Many Bookshelves, I Am Sitting There

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I Won't Limit Myself It What I Do

Some Tell Me I Should Stick To What I Know

I Can Be Wayward That Is Very True

With An Idea, I'll Get Up And Go

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I Can Hardly Believe I Am Writing This

And Maybe You Will Feel The Same Way Too

But It Is Just My Little Ink Stained Kiss

Just To Send All My Love And Thanks To You

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I've Shared Much Of My Life Here On Vocal

My Travels And Traumas And Happiness

Sometimes Far Away And Sometimes Local

But I Must Thank You All For My Success

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And Then The Music, I Have Shared A Lot

From The First Millenium To This Day

Most Of It Good, But I Know Some Is Not

All Should Be Sampled Is What I Must Say

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Though There's No Monsters Or Ships On The Sea

See This Is My Epic Vocal Saga

And You Know, Maybe The Monster Is Me

Words Are My Arrows I Use To Harrass

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In Vocal's Forty-Eight Communities

Yes, You Will Undoubtedly Find Me There

Please Go And Take A Look, And You Will See

And You Will See Where I Scrawled My Fine Words

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I Have Seen My Time On Vocal 's Platform

As A Journey Or A Voyage In Which

I Have Discovered So Much Love And Warmth

Where You've Complimented The Words I Stitched

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Plundered Mythology, Even For This

I'm No Odysseus Sailing The Seas

Though I Found My Muse And My Vocal Sis

My Friends Are My Treasures, All Here For Me

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Since I First Started Here How Many Words

Have I Shared With You? There's A Thousand Here

A Hundred Thousand In Poems I've Shared

Seven Hundred Thousand Elsewhere It's Clear

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Travelling And Art, For Me Are Sources

Even Food And Cooking Has Made Its Mark

I Let My Ideas Run Like Horses

From The First Morning Light Til After Dark

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It Is True It's Not All Been Plain Sailing

My Close Friends And Loved Ones Have Seen Me Though

Now I Am Sitting Here, Contemplating

Steps Exploring This Magic To Pursue

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Then Three Years Back I Became A Grandad

Alexis Leia Came Into My World

Inspiring Poetry That Made Be Glad

She's An Absolutely Beautiful Girl

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Writing Is Like Walking Along A Road

Sometimes It Is Easy , At Times Seems Long

Keep On Keeping On Is The Worthy Code

And Always On Your Journey Have A Song

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Never Force Things, Take A Break, Always Helps

A Good Night's Rest Will Always Recharge You

Look After Yourself, Make Sure You Feel Well

You'll Have No Regrets, Just Do What You Do

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I Have To Thank You If You've Read This Far

This Has Been An Epic Saga I Know

In My Eyes You Are A Wonderful Star

To Cast Your Eyes Over This Writer's Flow

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Yes, I Wrote One Epic Taking On Poe

And It Is Longer Than This, Believe Me

And One Day There Will Be Something Far More

For You To Come Swimming In This Word Sea

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We Are Coming To The Final Stanzas

Using Words That Need A Dictionary

This Has Been My Own Extravaganza

An Deep Ocean Of Words To You From Me

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My Words Flow Like An Endless Deep River

Feeding My Intellectual Ocean

In This Universe I Will Deliver

And Continue To Write With Devotion

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All's Said And Done It's A Torrent Of Words

So Much To Explore In Electric Stone

That'll Always Be Here, However Absurd

These One Thousand Words Or So, Almost Done

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And The Moment Has Come, It's Time To Go

The Sun Has Gone Down, The Bells Ring Midnight

This Is The Ending, That Much We All Know

So We'll Sit And Await The Morning Light

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