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On Writing
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Puts on
A record
Robert Johnson
Or Bach
Pours glass
Water
Of course
Picks up
Pen
Lays out
Fading paper
Lets ink
Flow
Clotted
A hand resting
On a pounding forehead
Eyes close
Mouth dries
Ignores the
Water
Goes outside
Lays down
And looks up
Debates thoughts
And unkempt grass
Buries rhyming
Words
And drifts away
*
Puts on
A record
Robert Johnson
Or Bach
Pours glass
Water
Of course
Picks up
Pen
Lays out
Fading paper
Lets ink
Flow
Clotted
A hand resting
On a pounding forehead
Eyes close
Mouth dries
Ignores the
Water
Goes outside
Lays down
And looks up
Debates thoughts
And unkempt grass
Buries rhyming
Words
And drifts away
*
Published 17th Aug 2013
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17th Aug 2013 5:55am
This poem illustrates the truth
that one must suffer for their art.
Great poem.
that one must suffer for their art.
Great poem.
17th Aug 2013 5:57am
Suffering, willingness, anything to provide the release of any artistic function...thank you
17th Aug 2013 9:47pm
The creative state is something quite special. I wish my mind would always be in a similar state:)
Thank you, Shady for great write!
Thank you, Shady for great write!
17th Aug 2013 9:49pm
It is very special, something I also wish my mind could too stay in :)
thanks!
thanks!
7th Jul 2015 4:34am
Damn! Robert Johnson! ... I love the simplicity of this, yet it's so telling and evokes crisp images
