Don’t think I’m ignoring you,
or I’ve flounced off in a huff.
I’ve simply dried up, my cupboard is bare,
I’ve used up the last of my stuff.
The needle is pointing to empty,
the tank is now running on fumes,
I am scraping the last of the barrel,
and a bleak, barren future now looms.
Where once I could gorge on a feast of ideas
I now offer barely a nibble.
That free-flowing fountain that gushed through my nib
has slowed to a pitiful dribble.
My mind is a desolate dustbowl,
the cracked, arid bed of an ocean,
I’ve fished out the last of whatever was there
and fashioned my very last notion.
I once was prolific, I bulged with ideas,
my cup ranneth over with verse
but now I am ravaged by famine and drought
so the poetry gets a bit terse.
I’m down to a single bleak metaphor now –
the last drop of wine in the cup.
And when that is gone I shall turn out the light –
that’s two - but the game is still up.
And when it’s all over, I’ll say my farewell
and dolefully head for the door
like a….
like a….. thingy
with a ….something something
in a something.
Welcome to The Tangled Branch! Join us.
No Muse is Bad News
-
- Posts: 45
- Joined: Tue Jun 18, 2019 6:13 am
No Muse is Bad News
To read more of my poems buy this big fat book - Rescued from Oblivion at https://www.feedaread.com/profiles/10661/
Re: No Muse is Bad News
1st stanza made me think of a breakup.
Get that it's about writers block, but I didn't like:
"
like a….
like a….. thingy
with a ….something something
in a something."
Perhaps it's unneeded or can be replaced by something else?
Get that it's about writers block, but I didn't like:
"
like a….
like a….. thingy
with a ….something something
in a something."
Perhaps it's unneeded or can be replaced by something else?
Re: No Muse is Bad News
Ah, Mr. Dylan di Vilde,
Tell me this is only you being playfully woeful. I always enjoy your writing.
If you're truly running out of ideas, you need a road trip or a few outings for people or critter watching.
I get the ending but my loss of words seem to manifest in mere forgetfulness.
Please keep writing. You are fun to read.
~Deb
Tell me this is only you being playfully woeful. I always enjoy your writing.
If you're truly running out of ideas, you need a road trip or a few outings for people or critter watching.
I get the ending but my loss of words seem to manifest in mere forgetfulness.
Please keep writing. You are fun to read.
~Deb