A Thousand Words Of Love
When You Love Someone They Are Always On Your Mind. For The Vocal Short And Sweet Challenge
Introduction
Although the Vocal Challenge is called "Short And Sweet" the only shortness that is referred to is the fact that words should not be more than four letters long and I said your poem could be an epic. Now I cannot rewrite the Iliad or the Odyssey but I can write a thousand words about someone who is special to me.
The format of this is none standard but will have a consistent form and will rhyme where it should. It is basically a series of quatrains followed by a short emphatic phrase.
This is a veritable sea of words, every vers could stand alone. There are swirls and eddies and whirlpools that will steal you away, but throughout the all is a thread of love. According to the Vocal editor, there are just over a thousand words in the poem but that may be different in other editors. I think I have kept to words of four characters or less but let me know if I have strayed.
The song is "Fields Of Gold" by Gordon Sumner (Sting) he's a Geordie by birth and I was sort of adopted and have been here for thirty years. This is a beautiful song loved by me and the one that this poem is for.
Thank You to Scott Wade, Babs Iverson and Cathy Holmes for spotting a plethora of five-letter words in my original poem, now corrected.
The Prompt
Write a love poem using only words with four letters or less.
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A Thousand Words Of Love
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This Is Just For Me To Tell You
How I Feel When You Are With Me
You Make Me Love You More It's True
Ever More With You I Will be
Yes I Love You
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We Are On A Road, You And Me
Hand In Hand, So Much We Can Do
Now Do You See What I Can See?
I Love To See Your Eyes Of Blue
I Do Love You
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Let Us Sail On A Deep Blue Sea
You And I Will Find A New Land
Like The Love That You Had In Myth
As Our Boat Came Up On The Sand
Yes I Love You
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And No Grey Sky Will Come To Us
Yes Our Sky Will Ever Be Blue
You Are The One, You Are My Plus
And Yes This I Say Is So True
So I Love You
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Let's Walk, See The Moon In The Sky
To Take One More Word For My Poem
And Your Know We Will Not Ask Why
That We Are Now Here In The Sun
Thus I Love You
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We Know The Ways To Show Our Love
Here We Are And Will Be Ever
The Sand, The Sea, The Sky And So
We Are Here, And You Are So Fair
And I Love You
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Look At The Sky, Ever So Blue
I Hold Your Hand, We Take A Walk
I Know You Love Me, I Love You
Then We Rest, And Sit Down And Talk
And I Love You
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See The Bird In The Sky Of Blue
Yes I Know That You Love His Song
Make Us So Calm That Is So True
We Love Him To Sing, In The Sun
And I Love You
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I Love It When You Come With Me
In Our Boat And We Sail Away
On And Over The Deep Blue Sea
With You For A Year And A Day
And I Love You
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In The Land Of Fae We May Be
I Will Be King, You My Lara
My Lady Of The Deep Blue Sea
We Will Save Our Pure Love Aura
I Will Love You
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Let Us Take A Walk In The Park
Walk In The Sun And The Blue Sky
Talk Of How We Have Come This Far
Know I Love You, I Won't Ask Why
Yes I Love You
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My Time With You Goes Far Too Fast
Each Hour I Wish Can Last A Year
But Yes I Know Our Love Will Last
I Am For You, You Know My Dear
I Do Love You
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To Feel Love Is To Feel So Good
To Know You Have Love In Your Life
You Can Do Each One For Your Mood
You Know You Will Do It, So Try
Yes I Love You
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We Will Sail On Our Sea Of Love
Sea So Calm, Sky Of Blue, With You
I Love All This Time That We Have
It Is So Good It Is So True
Thus I Love You
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I Love It When You Hold My Hand
And When You Look Into My Eyes
To Walk With You Is So Nice And
Then To Wait And Give You A Kiss
So I Love You
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We Make Each Hour Seem Like A Day
So Much True Love For Me And You
We Look And See The Tree Does Sway
The Wind Does Blow But We Are True
I Do Love You
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This Is The Way That I Tell You
Just The Way That I Ever Feel
You Make Me Act Like I Am New
When You Are Here It's Love I See
I Do Love You
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To Walk A Long Path Hand In Hand
To Talk And Tell A Tale And More
In Rain And Sun, We Walk And Run
Find A Tree As The Rain Does Pour
So I Love You
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I Know You Say I Talk Too Much
But You Just Make It So Easy
Just Want to Say It's You I Love
But You Know That, I Know You See
And I Love You
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We Can Make Our Very Own Myth
A Tale That Will Last For Eons
Of Gods And Fae, Star Luna Mist
How Far Can We Go, Let Us See
I Will Love You
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When We Did Meet So Long Ago
I Did Not See Us Being Here
But I'm So Glad That You I Know
And That You Are Now Here With Me
I Do Love You
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You Gave Me Hope When I Had None
And For That, I Give You My Love
All That Bad Time For Me Is Gone
You Gave Me My "Get Up And Go"
Thus I Love You
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We May Be Gods, Odin And SΓ½r
To Make Our Myth And Tell Our Tale
Over The Grey Sea Fast And Free
Let The Wind Blow And Fill Our Sail
I Will Love You
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Each Word I Say Is Just For You
You Are The One Who Made Me See
That I May Do This, That Is True
Then You Made My Word Flow So Free
And I Love You
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This Is What You Have Done For Me
Many A Word Came From My Pen
To Show To All So They Can See
My Work From The Love That You Send
I Do Love You
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So Much Time That You Gave To Me
To Help Me Make A Poem Like This
And When I Stop You Make Me See
That I Can Sure Make My Word Hit
And I Love You
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Love To Hear You, Love To See You
Love To Hold You, Be In Your Arms
I Love To Know Our Love Is True
And With You My Life Is So Calm
I Do Love You
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So Here I'll Stay, The Word Will Pour
You Ever Do Put Me At Ease
And You Know I Just Say More
But For Now I Will Say To Thee
Yes I Love You
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Comments (38)
But you're a Boomer, Mike, aren't you? Wouldn't this be more appropriate for a millennial? I suppose you could shout it out at the top of your voice. (Sorry, couldn't resist, had to go there. Part of my OCD, I suppose.) This may well be my favorite of those I've read so far from your pillar post. Editorial Notes: In the fourth line of the stanza beginning, "We Are On A Road, You And Me" did you intend "Se" or "See"? In the fourth line of the stanza beginning, "In The Land Of Fae We May Be" you have "share" which is five letters. (Possible solutions: "meet" or "bear", either would fit, though "share" carries both the possibilities of sharing with one another [closer in my mind to "meet"] &/or the two of you sharing it together with others [closer in my mind to "bear"].)
Lovely piece Mike well done
Congrats on top story!β€οΈ
This is so beautiful
Aww Mike, that was beautiful!
A lovely post which is most endearing. Congrats on getting top spot too! :)
It's perfect π Girl with the Sun and the Moon will always be my favourite for obvious reasons but this is truly spectacular. I hope it wins!
Congratulations on top story Mike, it deserves it! Had to come to check it out again. Beautiful poem!
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This is EPIC! Wowzers. Your soul has openly spilled here Mike. Love it!
Beautiful and well done.
These are some lovely thoughts, Mike! Congratulations on the top story. Well deserved! πππ
This is epic, Mike!
Beautiful and Impressive poem Mike. π₯°
So lovely Mike β€οΈ β€οΈβ€οΈ One of my favorite Sting songs too. Congratulations on your top story too.
Mike, after a long tiring day, I returned to enjoy your lovely poem and listen to Sting again. This is beautiful. π
Now that was Beautifully writtenβ€οΈππ―ππCONGRATULATIONSππ
Beautifully done Mike. β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
Congrats on the TS
Very well done Mike. A thousand words 4 letters or less, Wow!! Congrats on the Top Story.
Well done, Mike. A beautiful poem crafted brilliantly under the constraints. Nice to see you break out of the form box, too, although I'm never disappointed in the way you employ any of the ones you choose. "Fields of Gold" is one of my favorites, and easy to play, which is a bonus! Great job on this and congratulations!
A long, short ode to love and lovers. I have a feeling you enjoyed writing this π Congratulations on another Top Story Mike!
Congrats on Top Story, Mike! π₯ Iβm so glad to see one of your poems here. A beautiful poem at that. Itβs so tricky to make sure theyβre all words of 4 letters or less and still convey feelings.
I loved your verse like, song prose!! Beauty and grace in your lovely poem my brotherππ congrats on your amazing top story
Congratulations Mike in this great poem! π₯π₯π₯