1400

I’ve devoted my life to poetry

Whenever I’ve had the time,

Created whole towns and villages

And even the people rhyme.

There’s only supposed to be six plots

In the stories we have to tell,

And half of them aim for heaven, while

The rest of them end in hell.

But I’ve written fourteen hundred tales

And each of them has a plot,

With climaxes in the middle, and

A twist in the tail, or not.

There’s anger, love and revenge in there

Mixed in the poetic stew,

And some of the plots are quite threadbare,

But they’re all written for you.

My women are all quite beautiful,

My men are as hard as nails,

They constantly search for love, I find,

In all of my paper trails.

But most have an itch they have to scratch,

For some of them there’s regret,

They pay the cost when a lover’s lost

And it haunts their stories yet.

I often scribble in witches, ghouls,

And spirits that have no souls,

That hover around the edges, with

Their indeterminate goals.

I look to the distant future now

For tales you’ll never forget,

And trust to fate that it’s not too late

For a million stories yet.

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[A Soap Mess Stories]

And I love reading all 1400+ of your tales of love and woe...keep up the writing DLP...

[Coyote Poetry]

I hope so my friend. I loved your books. I have two I read and I need to order more. I love how you describe country, people and their lives. You are a amazing storyteller. Thank you David for sharing your work with me.
Coyote

[Avinash]

Congratulations on your 1400th poem David. Your writings I always look up to. You never know your works can inspire many other writers.

[Tony Jordan]

Here here DLP.
You have given so much - you're writing is first-class - I hope you write for our enjoyment for a long time to come.
Bravo !!!!!!!

[Cole Hayley]

Congrats on 1400, so prolific!

[The Eggman]

It was a joy to read this piece. Rhyme and meter seem to have fallen out of fashion. It's a shame for if it's done correctly, even the structure of the piece has an inherent beauty to it, and that's before the subject matter has even been taken into account. Thank you for the hard work

[Katie Lynn]

Congratulations on your 1400th poem David, and like all the others it is a masterpiece. I hope to one day be as brilliant as you in my use of rhyme schemes and metre. Here's to a million more poems! Cheers~

[Tom]

Congrats on the 14th Hundred David, and every one a gem, well, certainly all those I've read, a mighty achievement my friend!!

[Paul Bell]

I doth my hat Sir.
Lots more to come I hope.