Prompt #45, It’s Post Your Poems Day!
Against the grain!
You can’t make me! I don’t wanna write a poem! Well maybe your resistance to writing a poem was not so emphatic, not this week anyway. Or maybe it was. Certainly it happens to most of us in some manner some of the time. How do you address this issue for yourself? Answer directly or within the landscape of a poem as you wish.
Some say there’s such a thing as writer’s block. Some say not: pen to hand, then write, they say. Yet face to face with an empty page (or empty mind?) what will you do? Such was the challenge this week for us. Eagerly we await your answers now. (Yes, even we wouldn’t mind some sage experience to direct our work!) The moment has arrived.
Don’t have a poem yet? Perhaps read a few done by others here, be inspired. There’s still plenty of time to discover a poem for yourself!
Leave the links to your poems in the comments of this post, then go visit your fellow writers’ sites and read their work. Remember to leave only positive comments in the spirit of sharing and not critiquing. We look forward to reading your poems!
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Thanks very much for your help in inspiring my Writing Humor Isn’t Funny. three-verse limerick.
why I must..
http://nottherockefellers.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-does-she-write-so-much.html
Here’s mine.
http://imnotaverse.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/proving-i%e2%80%99m-not-a-real-writer-lethargy/
This is what came to me:
http://inthecornerofmyeye.blogspot.com/2011/03/against-my-grain.html
I tried to go against the grain…and It Will Not Stop
-Nicole
My poem flowed when I closed my eyes…
an ordinary moment
I found this very timely, and needed a bit of help from a fixed structure, so a haiku…
http://poetry-diary.com/
Madeleine – you inspired me!
http://1ightverse.blogspot.com/2011/03/todays-post-has-nothing-whatsoever-to.html
Man, I stayed up so late to try and catch the post before bed… oh well.
Demolition, March 2011
Yea, it’s been a long day.
dead ender poem
This form goes against my grain, but I tried it again.
http://flaubert-poetrywithme.blogspot.com/2011/03/muse-we-write-poems-45-against-grain.html
A better phrase than ‘writer’s block’ is ‘creative block’, because anyone can sit down and scrawl/peck some prattle on a page, but that’s the act of forming words — writing to a writer denotes something of creative merit.
I have been struggling the past couple months with creative block, though I am beginning to rise out of it. For me, my diabetes and depression really impact my creative output, and both have been a bit out of control. So I am now going to use the phrase ‘creative block’.
Here I’m reprising a poem I wrote four years ago about it:
Uninspired
I agree with your phrasing here Rob. Yet I have a certain trust in the value of simple movement too. For its’ own sake. I trust in expression, that it has inherent merit. But then I don’t burden my thoughts with much concern for art! (only a slight allowance for my ego!) 🙂
Good poem by any measure though Rob. Right as rain.
“A slight allowance for my ego” ..so funny
Here is something I wrote this week: Young Flower
I’m glad you got your muse back, Rob. Go go go!
Prayer for Japan: 祈り
Some struggles big, some small. Same same what we get.
Writer’s meditation
so depressing,
http://
arianv/blog.co.uk
http://Marianv.blog.co.uk/2011/03/16/poem-for-wwp-10837822/
(and thanks. spot on.)
Here’s one of mine from way back – the syndrome repeats itself at irregular intervals. http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/writers-block-for-we-write-poems/
An interesting prompt, guys.
How I Write
oops again: gone, like my typing skills!
And that arrived in the wrong place, too!
This was my “3-in-1” poem for Writer’s Isle, Sun. Scribs, and, of course, here. A woman who really went against the grain – and the status quo. My personal hero.
http://sharplittlepencil.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/big-little-woman-for-our-unions/
Amy