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A million poets came this way
To share their thoughts online,
Some wistful muse they could relay,
Some views of the Divine...
From paper scraps and envelopes,
From Wordpad files and more,
They fashioned all their dreams and hopes
Each message to outpour...

They've tried to edit what they penned,
They've tried their spellchecks, too,
They've read their poems start to end
And fixed things through and through...
The punctuation drove them mad,
But they did what they could,
Till looking at the lines they had,
They thought that they looked good...

Perhaps they saved their work in time
Before they lost it all,
Perhaps they changed a word, a rhyme,
To make more lyrical...
Suffice to say, most did their best,
Creating day or night
And took a chance you'd be impressed
By poems that they write...

Who knows the legacies they leave?
Who knows the treasures shared?
Who knows the thanks that they receive
When readers showed they cared?
Yet I hold fast to all God gives,
Through Scriptures, grace and love
And pray that in each poem lives
Some blessing from above...


Denis Martindale, copyright October 2015.