Fellow Bloggers,
You have my sincerest gratitude for following me through my ups and downs, through excellence and worthlessness! As I was getting ready to publish my 1000th post in WP, I thought it should be a note of thanks for your kindness and patience. So, here it is. Those of you who have already passed this milestone must have an inkling of my current feelings. I would label it as a mixture of mild awe and a lot of nostalgia. So let me begin with a little flashback.
After going through one of the most turbulent phases of my life, things were getting more stable by the start of 2010 for me. By April that year I secured a full time job and within a couple of months was growing anxious to publish my poems. After a few trial and errors with some other blogging sites, I decided on WordPress in August. Consequently, this blog was launched on 4th August 2010. More than two thousand days(2057), yet another divorce and countless heartbreaks later, here I am writing my one thousandth post and all I have ever done is to feed on your encouragements and inspirations. So, in one of my favorite philosopher’s words, you are therefore my poems exist.
Though my initial intention was to make this blog an outlet for my poems only, in time I deviated from that. Now it has nineteen(19) articles and fourteen(14) audio visual productions, along with about sixty(60) re-blogs from other bloggers. If that has offended any poetry lovers, they have my earnest apologies. However, the reason I still call the blog Poems is because I believe all creative and aesthetic works can be called poetry, whether it is expressed in words, colors or shapes. You might also have noticed that I have a weakness for Sonnets, so more than twenty five percent of my poems are sonnets. However, a lot of them are not in pentameter and some of them do not even follow a unified metrical pattern throughout. I am grateful to the WP community for letting me deviate from the conventions without any ado whatsoever.
Before concluding this note of thanks, I think it is necessary to shed light on the ultimate question, why do I write. Well, one of my friends, Dajena has very aptly answered the question in her ‘About’ section; I hope she will not be offended if I use her words. I write because it is synonymous to breathing for me. So every now and then I am haunted by these voices in my head and until I write them down on a piece of paper, I cannot breathe. Most of the times all that comes out are crap I know but I have never written anything that I have not experienced or lived through either in my life on earth or in the realm of my imagination. Before you discriminate between these two types of experiences, I beg you to consider my belief that the reality of our senses is as hollow as our sense perceptions are. Thank you all for patiently being with me through all these years. I hope your unyielding support continues even after my last breath!
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Congratulations on reaching 1000 posts and for sharing with us more about your journey! Wishing you much happiness ahead xx
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thank you for being so kind and generous!
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Congratulations on the 1000 post! May we get to read many more coming from you.
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thanks a lot for such kind words!
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Welcome 🙂
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my pleasure!
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WOHOOO!! You did it! 😀 And what an honor for you to use my words. I am really happy to have met you in the blogosphere! 😀
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well, honestly I am yet to come across a more appropriate reasoning of why I write. consequently I became an adherent of your philosophy!
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Smiling big!! We all need some more O2 😀 😀
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😀 😀 😛 of late I am preferring NO2 instead 😉
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Oh my.. You need to keep up the Oxygen intake 😀
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ok, back to plain O2 then..
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YAY!!! 😀
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Thank you for always liking my crazy poems (: and congratulations on your post x
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why should you call them crazy? they are quite poetic, though I am no accomplished judge of that! thanks a lot for your compliment!
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You probably know I’m an adept of pessimism, that’s why the “crazy” (:
Thank you, too.
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oh… that is wonderful…. I think pessimism is in my bone marrow… you are welcome… now even more after knowing that we share a common trait! 😀
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I can see that. True pessimism always shows in comments; we can’t help, but to add a happy face in everything (:
Hugs
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take care!
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to write is like life.
writing is like reading.
Everything is written in us.
Writing is like read us!
The meaning in our life is in what we read in us.
As I agree with you!
it is important to spend our life finding the deeper meaning.
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what you say is spot on! thanks a lot!
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Good to be here celebrating with too. Congratulations.
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All the best & congratulations
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thank you!
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🙂
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Reblogged this on Books and More.
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thanks!
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A phenomenal achievement indeed! Congrats to you! I share your views that writing poetry gives a clearer perspective on life and can even wipe out misconceptions and worries. Feel happy to be a part of a writer’s community, bringing life to the written word!
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that is quite generous of you! thanks a lot!
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Congratulations! What an achievement! Here’s to 1000’s more! 🙂
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thanks a lot kind Ma’am!
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Congratulations!!!!
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thanks a lot!
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Congratulations on your 1,000th post. 😉
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thank you!
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Congratulations ☺ keep writing ☺
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thank you!
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rock on 😀
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thank you sir!
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always a pleasure visiting!
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Congrats man. This is a very good achievement. I’m sure we will see many more thousands here. 🙂
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thank you for the kind wish~!
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You’re welcome Amit. All the best for the next 1000 now. 😉
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😀
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congratulations!!! 🙂
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thank you!
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Congratulations Sir! This is a biggg achievement! ☺☺☺
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thanks a lot Ma’am!
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☺☺☺
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Congrats my friend, and blessings for the next 1000! I look forward to reading you each time I log on! BTW, just completed my 100th! 😀
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hahahah…. you can only ensure one thing, either quantity or quality… I seem to have for the former, while you are steadfast on the latter! thanks a lot!
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Don’t say that, Amit! You’re bloody good, rest assured!
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thanks a lot man, that is very generous of you 😉
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1,000 posts! Quite an accomplishment…good job.:-)
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thank you sir!
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your welcome, Amit! love your work…:-)
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Congrats! 😀
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thank you!
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WooHoo!!
Congratulations, my friend – a fine achievement. Here’s to a thousand more 🙂
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thank you my dear friend… feeding on your words!
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Congrats!
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thank you!
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🙂
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Congrats Amit 🙂 wishing you more to go!
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thanks a lot!
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Welcome 🙂
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always a pleasure
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Well done, Amit 🙂
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thanks a lot, Richard!
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Welcome 🙂
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my pleasure!
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Congrats and hugs 🙂
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thanks a lot!
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You are welcome 🙂
We want another thousand!
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😀 your inspiration is much appreciated!
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🙂
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congratulations on your 1000th post! 🙂
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thanks a lot!
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