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The Poetaster in Winter
by Patricia Gomes → (All Poetry by Patricia Gomes)
  
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I told them all to leave today,
pulled a Bukowski
and screamed wild-eyed, red-faced:
"Begone, chattering, teeth-clacking peasants — you disrupt
my creative flow; Gomes must write!"

So they left me

to wallow
in egotistical, artistic madness.
It got real quiet, then.
And in the quiet,
I stared at the whiteboard of WORD
for a bit…
a bit longer…
a bit longer still…
and finally typed

nothing.

I began to stare instead at the whiteboard
provided by Nature
outside my window.
Clean, fat flakes, a rapturous fresh sheet
as yet unmarked by man or beast.
It called my name in passing drifts; I could not resist…
and so I wrote

in the snow.
Two words: Patricia Gomes.

Only two words, true ,
but I wrote them both
with such flair! Curlicue on the ess, no less!
And the important thing,
the important thing
is
that I wrote

at all.

© P. Gomes 2003












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 Reviews of "The Poetaster in Winter"
Reviewed by Michael Thomas (Reader)
Reviewed on January 30, 2003
I like this one here. The way it is written lets your eyes dance on the page and I feel the poem, for I have experienced the same things.

Reviewed by Amber Lynn (Reader)
Reviewed on January 13, 2003
A name in the snow, a footprint in the sand. So much artistic beauty in the world and you captured it with words.

Reviewed by Ed Lupinacci (Reader)
Reviewed on January 12, 2003
Ok Pat you know I have to ask

How exactly did you write your name in the snow

Reviewed by Oisín Breen (Reader)
Reviewed on January 11, 2003
madness insanity crazy fullsome wholesome description of everything and nothing and yes the great single yes of the world to roar

Reviewed by g
Reviewed on January 11, 2003
I have written in the snow myself. I used a pen. A very special pen. A fountain pen. A rather small but rather useful pen. I don't think you have one of those pens.

Adam

Reviewed by Adam Walsvik (Reader)
Reviewed on January 11, 2003

Reviewed by Floria Kelderhouse (Reader)
Reviewed on January 9, 2003
Hahahaha Fantastic write....I too MUST be alone to write or paint. I cannot deal with people around me..And snow..oh do I love snow. But I never wrote my name in it. LOL..I enjoyed this P....Floria

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
very well done...

Reviewed by na na (Reader)
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
I love the way you dropped your ending on this Pat.It made it striking! And the way you started out so ready to write once you got all the impediments out of the way. And then NOTHING! Oh that happens so often to me. Then giving up, you turned to nature
and found inspiration..enough to break the lethargy. In two words, "Loved it." In two more, "Love ......" Guess the other. I am just an old tease. Bill Murray

Reviewed by *********** ********** (Reader)
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
Damn, I don't have much snow to write in around here, it would tend to melt lol. :| I enjoyed this very much...All your work is great because it's different and unique. Ty, Dani

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
Isn't it wondrous to have the talent to write about anything and do it so well;-)nicely done!

Reviewed by Alexander Shaumyan (Reader)
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
Bukowski or not--loved the spontaneity in this one. :)

Reviewed by Lori Moore
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
Great write!

Reviewed by Tracey Hardie
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
Good write ... love the picture.

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
I don't think this was just a brief thought. Wonderful work as always.

"to wallow
in egotistical, artistic madness." Don't you just love doing that??

Reviewed by Ted Sheridan (Reader)
Reviewed on January 8, 2003
Good try, you don't fool me.


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