I use to write poems, every single day
I use to write poems, rather than go outside to play.
I use to sit for hours, dreaming up those magic words
looking at nature, and listening to some birds.
Than one day it happened, my muse just dissapeared
where did it go? Was it gone for good? That is what I feared.
Is it my new medication, that is causing all the trouble
should I stop taking it, and live inside a plastic bubble?
Over hill, under stone, everywhere I look
in grassey fields, in green forest, in river and in brook.
I can not find my muse, it seems to have vanished for good
Should I go find a new one, do you think I should?
I asked my therapist, to see if maybe she knew
she is the smartest lady I know, and everything she says is true.
She said my muse is still there, it is just a little buried inside
so I found my muse, where it was hiding, and took it for a ride.
I take it with me everywhere, for you never know,
when a poem might come to you, in rain, or sleet or snow.
Author notes
wow I am rusty! I haven't written a poem in months and months. I am glad to see that I haven't totally lost my touch!
A contest entry
- Medication and Your Muse by Viyanna Rosemarie.
1144 points, ended September 18, 8 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Nice personal write, seems it was back in Sept when you last wrote.
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Ahh that muse will hide dor so many reasons, but you have to keep her mobile and writing or she will disappear! A very good write on the prompt. Nice flow and rhyme
Gaylene
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i only hope it is a matter of my muse hiding. in this case i fear it is a case of her being drowned by medication. thank you for your entry and i wish you the very best of luck in this contest. viyanna rosemarie
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As a poet...
You can never force yourself to write. That is why I write fromn personal experience. You can tell you struggled here but like the other commenter said and like you said on your page its to be expected from time to time. I say this if you don't have anything to write about don't write. I can go weeks without writing then something will hit me. All my poems are not great but some are. Some I write in a crowded bar (on my blackberry) or while I am at work (shhh) or at home alone. It doesn't matter a good write comes under any circumstance and what's a good write anyway. Some like it and some may not. Hell I may hate it and everyone may love it (that has happebed by the way) thanks for reading my poem and keep writing!!! -
You wouldn't be a writer if you never got writer's block.
Years ago, in college. I had writer's block. It was going on 16 months or so. My scriptwriting professor had been bugging me to take the honors class, but I didn't want to because of my blockage, but then I thought... I will take that class, because at $900 a class (and I was paying for it myself) it'd force me to write.
So, in that class we had just 1 assignment that was the entire grade. We had to write a full length feature film between 90 and 120 pages. Keep in mind that the formatting is as technical as the writing is creative. I had 11 weeks with each weeks progress being reviewed in class.
Week 1, nothing
Week 2, nothing
Week 3, nothing...
I was in trouble.
One night I went to a Barnes 'n Nobles bookstore, just to chill and get my mind off of things. I sat in rounded chair with a few magazines, Popular Science, Fangoria, etc... when I overheard someone talking. There was an author discussing her new book, it was a seminar of some kind, so I half heartedly paid attention.
She didn't say anything as a writer that I haven't heard before, but when she said one particular thing... something clicked. She said "Write what you know, don't write about what you don't know." Now, I've heard that at least a million times previously, but I needed to hear it again, so I thought... What do I know a lot about... ?
The next thing I know, it's 6 weeks later and I have a 166 page script and an A for the class.
Even with my poetry, I NEVER sit down and try to write something, I just wait until something wants to come out. I carry a pen and paper with me at all times just in case I get randomly inspired somewhere, and if that's not available I leave myself a voice memo on my phone.
There's no point looking for your muse, it's a part of you, just write what you know, and write when the heart tells you to because any words straight from the heart will be poetic.
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