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Poet's Lament
by . Crystalwizard → (All Poetry by . Crystalwizard)
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Inspiration comes at the most inconvenient times

The lights are off,
The house is still,
I'm headed off to bed.

The blanket's soft,
The pillow's deep,
Soon dreams will fill my head.

But first there comes
A tip-toeing
A teasing little rhyme.

A single word
Resolves itself
With meter and with time.

Oh Pox! I snarl,
Oh go away!
Why is it every night,

That just as soon
As I settle down
I get the urge to write?

I get back up,
Turn on the lights
And sit down at my desk.

The words which filled
My thoughts and mind,
Now laugh at me in jest.

My mind's gone blank!
I've lost it all!
I stare off into space.

There's nothing there,
The ink has gone,
Just silence in it's place.

I'm too awake
For sleep or dreams.
I'm too asleep to think.

This curse which lurks
With in the dark
Has driven me to drink!

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 Reviews of "Poet's Lament"
Reviewed on January 10, 2008
And therein lies the root of my insonmia. Thanks for saying it for me!

Kathy

Reviewed by Chris Rosenau
Reviewed on January 20, 2007
OMG! This happens to me ALL THE TIME!
It's amazing how easily you can write when you don't want to, Not write when you do want to, and have nothing to come out when you finally surrender to the temptation to.

Very well written!
Bravo!

Reviewed by Larry Lounsbury
Reviewed on December 26, 2006
I really enjoyed this poem. That is exactly wha happens to me just about every night that I am about to sleep. Now I keep a notebook nearby just in case I need to pen a thought.

Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on December 26, 2006
LOL
PLAY IT AGAIN SAME LOLOL
great tune here, and so relatable, like your melody big time :)

Reviewed by Susan Sonnen
Reviewed on December 26, 2006
very good! I know that of which you speak...3am :(

Susan

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on December 26, 2006
This is very well written.

Personally I was forced to train my multi-faceted muse to do as I bid. If I want to write, it says I'm tired. If it wants me to write, I say I'm bored. Because of this felonious loggerhead, we have made a deal - if I write and it turns out decent, I reward the muse with a glass of wine. Muse likes this and always wants more.

Besides that - I keep a little tape player with me at all times so before the inspiration dissipates I have recorded it.

Muse says I'm cheating.

Richard Lloyd Cederberg

Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg
Reviewed on December 26, 2006
mine arrives at 4 or 5 am, and i just can't unlayer myself from the warm covers...and when I do arise....the words have melted into mist


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