Swimming In The Ocean Of Words

I wanted to write a poem for this but the subject I chose I had already covered many times. I am very wary of repeating myself and then I started thinking from the twenty-six letters and ten numerical digits we can create millions of words that we can weave into sentences to create a tapestry of stories to share with our friends and people that we care for.

So I thought I would do an epic (for me) poem. The format will be a series of quatrains with an ABAB rhyme format and ten syllables per line and will consist of a few hundred words.

At this moment in time that is is only plan that I have for this. I had been tempted to try an Inverse poem, but I have decided to challenge myself on this.

The music is "Polyghost" by Bonobo

An Oddysey On An Ocean Of Words

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Looking Out From The Shore On This Ocean

I Am Very Scared To Push Out My Boat

I Know That I Must Leave My Docking Station

And Very Soon My Start Will Be Remote

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Sailing Off Into This Ocean Of Words

The Inspiration Of My Muse With Me

To Become Immersed In Currents And Curls

On Our Way Through A Literary Sea

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Here Is The Sea Where Homer Found His Words

Iliad, Oddysey Caught In His Nets

Scylla And Charybdis, Sirens And More

Helen Of Troy, And Greeks In The Gods' Debt

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We Sail And We Swim, Engulfed By Letters

With Which We Can Weave Wondrous Sentences

Mermaids And Selkies, Creatures That Matter

So We Can Create Truth And Pretences

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William Shakespeare Sailed These Waters Well

And Brought Us Many Great Plays And Sonnets

Shall I Compare Thee, Venus On The Shell

The Scottish Play, Winter's Tale And Hamlet

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All That You Read, In Books And Newspapers

Magazines, Pamphlets, Writers You Admire

All Of Them Come From These Wordly Waters

Brought Forth To You By These Weavers Of Words

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So Let Us Dive In, See What We Can Find

Some Of Us Explore Far Darker Waters

Mary Shelley Gave Us Her Frankenstein

Dracula Flew From The Pen Of Stoker

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This Sea Is Home To Every God And Myth

Every Mystical Being And Creature

Waiting To Be Freed By The Author's Whim

Within The Tale Whereby They Will Feature

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Beckett Made Us Wait So Long For Godot

Charles Dickens Subjected Us To Hard Times

Oscar Wilde, Sacred By The Canterville Ghost

Edgar Allen Poe, Doman Of Arnheim

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So Now We Are Sailing With These Writers

On This Great Ocean Of Words And Stories

To Make Everyone's Future Much Brighter

With The Words We Find For Future Glories

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