A Thank You Poem to My 1K Followers

Time to celebrate 200+ published stories and your kind support 💖💖💖💖🥰🥰🤗🤗🤗😘😘😘

To each and every one of you who clapped for me and made my day cherry

Shukria , Dhera Manana — Thank You in my mother tongue — from my heart to yours

you cheered me up with your sunshine responses, no pandemic blues when I had you

You’re all my beloved friends, you followed me with nothing back in return

you were there through thick and thin, I know a few left me, it’s O.K

my opinions are strong, it has to be, if my voice is shushed, emotions will be bottled up, it needs a shore, it cannot be further stored

suppression is not the key, expression is the key!

I celebrate here 1k followers and 200+ stories, a journey I started back in April 2021, a journey I’m so proud of starting back then as I reminisce today

O what joy it brings me, to share my stories!

a regular writer I decided to be from June 2021

I found my newfound love for poetry, in poetry, I bare it all, all of my soul, in a platter of gold

I wore my heart on my sleeve; in poetry, I bare my soul clicking on some keyboard strokes; I let it seep, the emotions flow; the rivers fly, oceans bellow, mountains tremble, as I crumble, my poetry squeaks!

some sacrifices you must make, some you must forsake!

the sacrifices I made were not heroic, sometimes foolish too!

sleepless nights, early mornings, skipping breakfast, lunches, and no hangouts; my Ph.D. was on hold too, research took a full stop, my health took a toll; a couch potato with a laptop screen, one hand typing lyrics for poetry’s melodies

I put my muse on a tall pedestal and then the pedestal hit ground zero

towards the end, I lost my poetry’s muse too, my muse was never mine, to begin with

see life throws you curveballs, you’ve to dodge them, otherwise, you get hit in the pit

I am now all set to find a new muse — maybe in the birds who flock in numbers, maybe in the rivers where fishes flow with the current, maybe in the fragrant flowers who face the sun, leaving their shadows behind, maybe, just maybe I’ll be amused to find a muse laying eggs within me!

who knows, you’ll have to see, log on and find out in the coming weeks!

a blank canvas awaited me each day, to paint a picture as I pleased

an offense is not the best defense, grit is about perseverance, I learned that lesson too!

gratitude and patience come with time and age or acceptance, that you’re not in charge or in control all the time!

once a full draft of a poem that I had spent my waking hours to write was not saved properly and got deleted

see Medium has errors too, I had no backup, I had experienced this before once when a project got deleted and I had to start from scratch

life is not a ctrl+c and ctrl+v (copy and paste) from one medium to another, you can always start again, have a little faith, you’ve all the right set of traits!

I learned along the way taking a breather once in a while is vital for your vitals!

so let go of all the tethers barring your soul; breathe in, breathe out, calm down!

this is still, a thank you note, one filled with love and gratitude!

Thank you for walking down the road a few blocks with me, the smiles we shared, the Medium cab I drove and you partook in, and the flight we booked to a destination: Fantasy land!

the journey of a thousand words starts with a few strokes

thank you for quenching my quill with the ink of your beautiful comments

an artist's easel is made of wood, to hold the canvas from falling; you hugged me and sent me your precious hearts, you didn’t let me tumble when I fumbled!

I felt like a celebrating; ice skating the Olympics rings, collecting Red Roses along the way; thank you for all your love, I’ll cherish it for an eternity!

you helped me see clearly when I thought I needed to reshuffle and refocus!

thank you for stopping by, for taking out the time from your busy schedules to read my stories, thank you for being there for me when I needed you the most

Thank you to 1000 followers: Your claps, your feedback, your support, keeps me going all the way to the lee wee hours of the night to polish my craft before display

you know, it was never about the money, it is about an artist seeing her picture come to life, the pride she feels to see her work on display in an art gallery

Thank you for making me feel like a Picasso of the poet’s world!

Thank you for letting me display my work at the Louvre in the Medium’s museum

Thank You, Allah first and foremost, without your help, I was nothing, Thank You for making me live through my poetry!

Thank You for the craft, poetry lives, poetry is an immortal song of the soul!

Thank You to Rumi too, my fellow, Persian ancient poetry, your poetry helps to bind my shattered soul!

poets paint pictures with words so you can see the imagery that our minds sketch

thank you for being so perceptive, for finding the message behind the hidden words

I’m an artist, from the East, I speak in riddles to see who perceives

in fiction you’ll find, some reality; in reality, you’ll find some fiction mixed

your job is to separate the fiction from reality and there you’ll find my story

Thank You for all the lessons you taught me, the journey has just begun, latch on to your seat belts, it’s a roller coaster ride!

Let’s march onto no trespassing territories, let’s break those chains, let’s barge in the welcome home zone!

Thank You for fanning me with your love, my twinkling stars, I love you all!

Take care, God bless you too, be the best, do your very best, God is with you all!

Let’s create a space, in the books of history, let’s leave a solid legacy behind!

Thank You for being your beautiful, gorgeous, self! You beautiful sparkly souls! Light up the skies, shimmer the moon!

till next post, we shall meet again on this same profile, I will wait for you, join me in on the fun, let’s celebrate and party!

Thank You for your kind wishes too! 💖

© Dazzling Shene 2021

Thank you, Trista Signe Ainsworth, you beautiful soul, for kindly publishing my poetry in Thank You notes! Grateful 💖🤗

Thank you, my friends, for reading my poetry and supporting me. You all are very special, my twinkling stars, and very talented writers. I’m humbled by your kind support! 💖🥰🤩

To all my fellow poets, your craft keeps me going. It brings me so much joy to read your creative and beautiful poems spring to life and see you grow with each new brilliant poem posted. Your imaginative take on each new prompt inspires me yet you stay so humble. Keep doing what you do best, you know all of you are the best! Thank You for keeping this space and poetry alive. Spread the joy. 💖💖💖

A big Thank You to all the Editors who published my work and supported me and all the publications I write for. Consider all of you tagged 💖