Celebrating Poem Birthdays and Identity Numbers. (When and why? Poem 136)

I was sitting at my desk, feeling forlorn

When I wondered when my first fun poem was born

My rhyming dictionary tells me straight

Which one or two syllable words rhyme with date

rhyming dictionary, against apron with words, photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

I started this blog in two thousand and four (11)

I didn't write much then, now I write much more (11)

I try to write bright poems every day

So I and my keen readers don't fade away

What's recently written looks best at first sight

But I'm counting to establish copyright

I want to proudly prove I was first to say

My gems flowed from the day before yesterday

I keenly count, syllables in every line

I make sure each poem shows some sort of rhyme

I insert a photo I take, or I find

I'm usually funny when I speak my mind!

I number each poem because titles change

I know you may think that a number looks strange

I keep life simple, poems listed like bricks 

Don't you love lucky poem, thirteen and six.

-ends-

Author's note

One and six evokes the days of pounds shillings and pence (abolished in 1971) when one shilling and sixpence would have been called one and six.