My First Century of Poems

Yes I can’t believe my eyes but its true…today I posted my 100[SUP]th[/SUP] poem on IL. :banana

Sorry but I will take you to a trip down memory lane…won’t be so lousy or boring I trust.

I joined IL in May 2013, reason being I wanted looking for a “Forum” to post my poem, just one poem at that point of time. Like some devil in me was unleashed I browsed for two days to check where I can post and read poems. And I found IL interesting and more apt to what I was looking for and then went ahead and posted my first poem “Wonderland”. Sure a lot of them read seeing the viewing count, but only @Dinny was kind enough to respond and post a comment. Dinny you don’t know what that meant to me, and I can’t thank you enough.

I am writing about this today because for me it’s a dream come true, for more than 15 years I have been trying to penn a few lines but just could not get the words. I could barely write a sentence if you ask me. I enjoyed poetry and literature from my school days, be in it English, Hindi or Kannada, and always marvelled at the poets wondering what invoked those lines that they penned, was intrigued all the time. Then one day guess what I did, after I made peace with myself that I will never be able to write a poem. My school published magazines every year, and a section was dedicated to my fellow, junior and senior students. I could not resist the fact that I name would never appear in the magazine so a crooked idea struck my mind :mrgreen: I fished out old magazines and stole the poems that were not too long not too short, wrote them in a fresh paper and submitted them with my name, LOL.

I thought well who is going to find out now…chuck the copy right problems. There was no tools sure at that point of time to check for duplication and all. But dishonest deeds paid back, none of them got selected shakehead .I accepted this fact that it’s not meant for me, so gave in to just enjoying reading what came in text books. One day was forced to write a poem as part of some unit test – Guess what the topic was?? “Happiness “ , great I didn’t know what that really was in poetic way so wrote these line –“Happiness is eating ice-cream, Happiness is eating chocolate, H is sitting by the lake ( like I ever did before still wrote it and then blah blah ) . It was the actual end to my poetic saga. Almost 12-13 years after that wonder why, yes I still do wonder what made me write “Wonderland” one night. After that day I just seem to have been writing and writing, whether at my office desk, or @ the dining table, I seem to have to written more than I could ever can imagine. And today dear good lord it’s touched 100

Please don’t think I am doing too much of a self-praise, just basking in this moment’s glory for now for a feat that I thought was impossible at one point of time. My poems are all centred on topics of “Love and Love only” with a few exceptions. The last two years have been wonderful and splendid, spending my free time writing poems, posted a few in the office newsletter too and some I circulated amongst close friends for a read. Having said that it goes without saying that I must thank all my poetry forum friends (GG -you have commented on 99 poems :thumbsup Uma, Neetu, Madhu,Periamma,Ammulur,Vijima,RGS and few others that I am suddenly unable to recall, my apologies) for reading, for all the likes, comments, encouragement and appreciation that I have received. I would not have completed a 100 poems without you folks.

Just wish and hope that I would be able to tweak my brain for a prolonged time and be able to write more poems, better, nicer and good ones. That my journey with IL would be for many more years to come.

OK, before you think I am just not stopping – one wish that I want to fulfil today. To have my name posted against the poems, my long desired wish. Scorpio707 loves poems and will write poems. My name is Meenakshi (aka Meena and Meenu).

Oh I almost forgot to mention that my all-time favourite poem is– The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

Thank you.

 

Thanks GG...expect the unexpected from me all times...also whether my poems are good/bad/ugly you'd better give me a comment GG ...it's out in the open now that you have read all of mine ..so continue to do so... and thanks for the nice words too :thumbsup

 

Lathasv - Thanks so much stopping by here and posting your comments...feels good...you can read my poems if you keep going back to the old pages, hope you will read and find them good..thanks again.

 

@Kamla - Thanks so much Kamla mademydaysmiley . Didn't expect you to read this post, but nevertheless very happy that you did. Thanks for your wishes and encouragement.