My Poem Has Not Begun

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My Poem Has Not Begun

I saw the setting sun, my day was far from done

I saw the paper, blank, my poem has not begun

I saw the evening, then morning has come

I saw no progress, still an unwritten poem



I sat, I saw, I twiddled my thumb

Still I wrote no words to make a poem

I saw the paper and it's still blank

Can you help, yank me so that I crank

I am close to giving up, facing mad scrutiny


I scream in the face of my own mutiny

I saw me walking, maybe I'm about to tank?

I saw a man, he says you don't have to walk a plank

What's next, I start to write, a word, a poem


C'mon, join up, and I'll be frank, my foe pressed me

forward, in stubborn rank, I've got a fistful of charm

and yes, I have a gun beneath my arm.

I saw my self with a poem designed, so back on off


Destroy blank man's paper, rank by rank

Writing it is not rigged, go fig yourself, get it done

I see some writing on my page, it rhythm

Now you see me write a thing in rhyme

Who do you think, am I



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gailkindler commented on My Poem Has Not Begun

05-07-2017

I sometimes have the opposite problem.A poem sneaks up & jumps into my head when I have no way of writing it down. Then it nags me until I get it written. If only there were telepathy we could solve each others problem. this is sort of a roundabout way of saying I love this poem. I think I'll put it's counterpart on my site.

CatsMeow

05/08/2017

Thank you so.much I need to write more often. Lazy

Lind commented on My Poem Has Not Begun

03-10-2017

I myself have genuinely been feeling a lot like that lately (not necessarily in poetry, but in art and reading), so I can very much empathize.

CatsMeow

03/10/2017

Thank you Lind

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman, American Poet (1819-1892)

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