All the passion and rage that builds up inside,
I can't seem to find an outlet;
Am I insane, or merely flawed?
Is it fate? Nothing in my mind but
Art (and how it burns)
Yet it won't come to life.
My hands clench, unable to draw,
Art that taunts and teases,
Can't it just release?
Be something more than urging
Found in life and not just thought.
Author notes
The title is kind of a play on words, or intended to be so. This is the constant struggle I'm trying to overcome, where I long to draw, but can't create anything of value (at least in my mind). Drives me insane.
My acrostic sentence is: All I am is art, yet my art can't be found.
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Ouch! This was so full of frustration - some of which I can understand;
With all of us here being poets, we'll have all at some point or another, reached a stage where we simply can't see past the wall in front of us, and the words won't flow -
And, as a musician, I've found that with composing also, I can sit at the piano .. and NOTHING will come from my fingers, so I imagine it is very much the same for an artist also, with fingers itching to pick up a brush -
This was so well written - and an acrostic too! Which I myself fail hopelessly at writing so admire those that can do them successfully all the more! :}
Thanks for entering
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I LOVE this
Insanity, muse, flaw, or distortion of relflection? Are they different or the same? It is true that when you create what you already have or are, it can't be found...yet it already has been. The great paradox. I actually recently came off of a muse blockade, and now I have diarrhea of the pen.
Why is it that when we declare ourselves as something other than simply ourselves, in this case art, neither the art or our own being can be found? in the meantime, draw things that you lack, either internallyh or externally, concretely or in abstraction...value is borne of lack.
You did very well, and hit a few of my favorite things...internal struggle with yourself(fucking angst, grr) and freeverse. if all else goes well, I think you may earn some points. -
Beautiful Melancholy...
Wishing you all the best, and thank you for sharing your muse's creativity!!! 
Peace always, xx Cyn 
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beautiful. i think i get what yah mean too, all that inspiration and all those ideas but you cant seem to make get them out the way you want to, great job
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I know this feeling all too well. I haven't been able to paint anything of value in months! Interesting acrostic style here. I enjoyed this piece. Well done.
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i can so relate to this!
you put this feeling into words perfectly
i like how its also an acrostic that emphasizes your struggle to draw
well done
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