The words lie dormant in my brain
Uncooperative and stubborn
Leaving my confidence in ruins
Page after page of false starts crossed out
Rewritten only to be crossed out once more
Waiting for a spark to foster the creative impulse
About to surrender to the obstacles in my mind
When angelic whispers show me the shining path
That leads to the birth of a poem.
16 comments:
angelic whispers, so true!
Happens to us....nice poem.
I can relate! Thanks for sharing.
Waiting for the spark... SO TRUE I find that a paintbrush works with this spark of creativity so much faster then using poetic words but... because I need to connect that spark to the "art with a voice" I keep adding the words that come as I paint or as an inspiration to paint
Angelic whispers... I depend on this too.
Yes ... the creative process is a miracle!
Sometimes you have to listen hard to get the pen moving again..but that in itself is a story..Jae
I heard Mary Oliver read in November, and her last comment to us was: Write! Write something. Keep writing. Something will come.
You proved her right.
Thanks for your poetry jamming! Your writing definitely IS a miracle,
Here's my contribution:
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2012/02/miracles.html
Before you know where you are the words will come tumbling out and there just won't be time to do the washing, cleaning, shopping or anything else for that matter. Do you now what? Those don't matter!
don;t you love when they whisper those words to you.
A common experience for every writer. The words seem obscure and writing becomes tedious but them, in a flash, they pop out of nowhere, "angelic whispers"- beautiful. :)
Ah yes, a miracle indeed! I love it when I get those angelic whispers! Write on!
I can relate to this beautiful poem very much....a lovely capture of a writers path with pencil in hand. :-)
That says it so nicely.
True enough. A nicely written description of a problem we all have. But ideas and themes, written down so that they are not lost, can be tamed in time.
Fascinating whT Artbyrae wrote. Yes, heavenly whispers help, don't they?
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