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Why I write, what I write
by Ruan Mills → (All Poetry by Ruan Mills)
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I was asked so I answered


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My writings are varied, my thoughts fuel the fire

My mind takes them captive before they expire

An inner dimension, newborn in the breeze

Dictates to my fingers in moments like these

 
My muse is a tyrant, a dragon, a fiend

At unlikely moments more thoughts have convened

I cannot detain them, they must have their way

Pushing and shoving to hijack my day

 
Dancing a tango, seducing my mind

Forming the words that my voice cannot find

Rushing and tumbling over the page

Whirling and twirling, coming of age

 
Splicing, enticing, leading astray

Dreaming up ways to enrich the affray

Sounding and pounding, building with glee

‘Til finally, a brand new creation is free

 
It’s because all of this that I write what I write

I don’t have a choice when new notions take flight

I am merely a vessel, a means for my muse

Thus providing a stage for her artistic views.

 

 


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 Reviews of "Why I write, what I write"
Reviewed by David Clure
Reviewed on July 18, 2016
You captured it all perfectly. Like a door for the initiated, this poem endues flashes of insight.valuable.

Reviewed by Dark Knight
Reviewed on March 11, 2013
wow--what you said here about writing and the Muse that Poets have is so true-well done--when I saw this title I immediately thought" I have to read this" and I am glad I did

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on February 22, 2013
Ruan, The rest of us are on the same schedule...

Always,

Deborah

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on February 10, 2013
Would that there were more who wrote like you. Responding as you do the the quintessential drive of most creative energy: "inner dimension, hijack my day seducing my mind I am merely a vessel" Oh yes, if only.

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on January 19, 2013

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on January 18, 2013
I've been there,
And I do care,
So keep up your writes,
As if nothing else,
To you its only right...

Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger
Reviewed on January 15, 2013
Ruan,
A marvelously created write.
Pen to paper musings to a smile.

Lady Mary Ann

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on January 14, 2013
Write On!

Reviewed by Andy Turner
Reviewed on January 14, 2013
...and the 4 am scramble for a pen before the poem is gone, again? lol

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on January 13, 2013
your muse has found a perfect vessel to express great writing
budd

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on January 13, 2013
A very enticing little write about why we write. Love it!

Ron

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on January 13, 2013
And that is the way it ought to be so far as I am concerned. I love it when words insist on being shared. Thank you, Ruan. Love and best wishes,

Regis

Reviewed on January 13, 2013
Well done, Ruan.

Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on January 13, 2013
From a grateful member your artistic audience:

I write to acknowledge the works that I read
To praise and encourage the thoughts that are freed
Especially the ones that stir up my own
That thrill me or chill me right down to the bone.
Your words do all that with a touch that caresses
And sometimes they even relieve all my stresses.
Many thanks.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on January 13, 2013
It could not be said any better, nor more explicit, Ruan. This is truth personified and gives to the reader (me) total commitment when the sinister Muse stalks poet's thoughts and dictates our poetry.


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