Wednesday, June 8, 2016

The Writer's Lament


for dVerse

O cursed writer’s block
The infuriating force that mocks
Bright-eyed scribbling dreamers
Producing tepid rhymes like femurs

The muse has flown
Leaving me in agonizing moans
Red-eyed grasping for straws
Landing in cliché’s redundant maw

O cursed writer’s block
The maddening force that mocks
Wild-eyed scribbling dreamers
Producing tepid rhymes like lemurs

There’s no way to exorcise it
No pathway to escape it
I’m sinking deep within its bog
My mind lost in a numbing fog

O cursed writer’s block
The exasperating force that mocks
Weeping scribbling dreamers
Producing tepid rhymes like streamers



7 comments:

  1. Writers block..now that would be a sad song. It is frustrating chasing that muse.

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  2. You did write those rhyming verses, smiles ~ No cure for it except to write and write, I guess ~ Good work on the refrain ~

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  3. Quite interesting how a simple lament can cause one amazing poem to be written!!!

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  4. At least you're still trying. Love the lemurs and femurs!

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  5. OH Lord..
    Hypergraphia..
    the opposite of
    Writer's BLock..
    iT frees WriTinG
    to the point wHere
    nothing else iS..
    hmm.. tHere's
    alWays anuther
    side to dArk
    and
    liGht..
    Flood oF
    Words or
    famine oF fLow..;)

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  6. I see this as something that might be sung in a poet's bar. I find that the best cure for writer's block is to write about writer's block...looks like you might have a similar strategy!

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  7. Love this lament! It's exactly how I feel right now. Why must our bursts of creativity end???!!

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