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On The Other Shore

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I sit here pretending to be creative,
but end up playing the same broken record

time after time

annoying myself with the 'verbal non-fluency' of a notion
when I all I really want to do
is bore holes in my head with the stylus
and whitewash the trite ambiguity
in dark grey pencil smudges

my brain just doesn’t hold up
under all the filth that's
caked in nooks and crannies like mildew inside
a poorly-lighted crawlspace,
causing me to count the elapsed moments
between one calculated breath to the next

-waiting alone in the wisdom of emptiness



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Ga te Ga te, Pa ra Ga te,
Pa ra sam Ga te,
Bodhi Swaha.


prompt:
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” ...
SYLVIA PLATH


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  • righteousme
    November 24, 2008

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    my brain just doesn’t hold up
    under all the filth that's
    caked in nooks and crannies like mildew inside
    a poorly-lighted crawlspace,
    causing me to count the elapsed moments
    between one calculated breath to the next

    -waiting alone in the wisdom of emptiness. ...

    that takes the quote, for me personally , to a whole other level of understanding ... thank you so much for your time and talent in this contest ...


    • FallingSideways silver member
      November 24, 2008
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      thank you for your kind words. This was how I personally related to the quote.

  • george the 23rd
    November 19, 2008

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    Ok... You have the quote at the bottom... So! Kick your enemy in the crotch! Self-doubt, BEGONE! We all feel like this from time to time, it's just a matter of letting the doubts win. You just can't. Good write on the oftentimes difficult world of writing. I understand the emotions here entirely.