When you encounter writers block, sit a spell and 'think it up'
Think about where you have been, read old poetry again
Reminisce of ages gone, listen to a hit-list song
Share a coffee with a friend, then pick up your trusty pen
Take your pen and write a word, write another, then a third
The rhythum flows just like a song, and you'll find out before too long
It tells a story, maybe two, something made up, something true
Somwhere that you might have been, a time you laughed with an old friend
About the future or the past, a present time that you can grasp
You hope the words will come alive, will they be happy or surprised?
It might cause some tears to flow, or make some angry, I suppose
You paste the words upon the lines, and glue an ending, it might rhyme
The story stretches to the plot, the sentences are catching up
You ask a question, or exclaim, use puntuation to proclaim
The words are flowing with the pen and pretty soon you'll reach the end
Your writers block is now defeated, the poem you wanted is completed
The verse becomes a paragraph
You'll end it with an autograph
The pen is tired, the papers gone
The poem is done, another one?
Author notes
I wrote this for a contest to help combat writers block.
A contest entry
- Quickie. Writers block! please help. by Dreamana.
300 points, ended June 13, 2008, 9 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Inspire me by Kristin Melissa.
1050 points, ended July 2, 2008, 17 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Do You Write Serious Poetry or the Kind that Rhymes? (Contest) by Peripatetic.
1400 points, ended July 29, 2008, 27 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What do you Think???
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Great write! I certainly will take up your advice! Thanks for the great entry and your help!
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The rhyme schemes are deceptively complex, making use of both internal and end rhymes. The pedagogic tone of the poem conceals the complexity of it rhyme and meter.
This poem engenders nostalgia, reading like an old grammar school primer on "How Do You Write a Poem?"
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Koodles wonderful write!!! This is alot of wonderful ways to break out of a block. Good luck in the contest!
Blessed be
Mystic
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I really like this entry, it suggests a few ways to try and break out of this rut. I particularly like the way that you finish with
'The verse becomes a paragraph
You'll end it with an autograph
The pen is tired, the papers gone
The poem is done, another one?'
However, because I had a 20 line limit I cannot consider this
TY very much for entering though.
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sorry, I am learning that I cannot afford to rely on the site doing the line counts.
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It's 20 lines, the monitor is wrong. but obkb, no problem. poetic love, D.
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well this is spiffy so far
keep it up and youll have a winner
good luck in the contest and take care
stephanie
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Not finished,
a touch of dora7.
can anyone beat that?
I don't think so.
I have my coffee!
bravo, your talent pours off the page
bravo sis
god bless...
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