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I Am Your Muse
You are flesh
I am pain
post suffering
your words remain
I force the ink
upon the page
granting means
to share your rage
Provoke despair
my sole intent
prompting verse
revealing torment
Igniting grief
forming prose
my inspiration
you do not oppose
Using your ache
I summon misery
affording language
encouraging poetry
Past tragedies
I often peruse
holding my place
your unfortunate muse
I am pain
post suffering
your words remain
I force the ink
upon the page
granting means
to share your rage
Provoke despair
my sole intent
prompting verse
revealing torment
Igniting grief
forming prose
my inspiration
you do not oppose
Using your ache
I summon misery
affording language
encouraging poetry
Past tragedies
I often peruse
holding my place
your unfortunate muse
Published 2nd Jul 2019
Author's Note
Submitted for the Muse competition
All writing remains the property of the author. Don't use it for any purpose without their permission.
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- Edited 21st Oct 2019 5:45am
2nd Jul 2019 12:11pm
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2nd Jul 2019 12:23pm
Thank you kindly dear HF. I do often have this unfortunate muse ...as I am sometimes a tortured soul. I appreciate you taking the time to read as well as identify and comment on what you feel works well. Very thankful:)
2nd Jul 2019 1:21pm
I love how you are writing through this, Mel. You are surely becoming a honed Poetess of meter and rhyme! This one read wonderfully aloud. Best wishes in the comp!
2nd Jul 2019 3:33pm
Thank you Ahavati. Writing has always been cathartic for me. Honoured by your appreciation and your compliments are always appreciated!
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Anonymous
2nd Jul 2019 2:47pm
This is amazing! So glad you joined in with this piece. The muse speaks through us so often but only on our own terms. What happens when we let them speak for the sake of hearing them, their perspective? I love this!
2nd Jul 2019 3:36pm
I am so thankful for your appreciation of this piece. I do try and let my emotions speak. However, I agree it is through my eyes. Honoured by the RL dear friend:)
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Hey, mel44
I am bemused by your role as the muse not of history but of life.
Your simple, wonderful structure and unpretentious, easy-on-the-ear vocab endear your work to the reader.
A perfect ABCB rhyme scheme seems to be supplanted by a less even-tempered rhythmic flow probably symptomatic of the dynamic nature of the muse to meet the demands of the moment.
Your pendulum is rhyme and reason inasmuch as your metre is through-composed (what Germans musicians refer to as "durchkomponiert").
Sincerely
cab
I am bemused by your role as the muse not of history but of life.
Your simple, wonderful structure and unpretentious, easy-on-the-ear vocab endear your work to the reader.
A perfect ABCB rhyme scheme seems to be supplanted by a less even-tempered rhythmic flow probably symptomatic of the dynamic nature of the muse to meet the demands of the moment.
Your pendulum is rhyme and reason inasmuch as your metre is through-composed (what Germans musicians refer to as "durchkomponiert").
Sincerely
cab
4th Jul 2019 12:53pm
Hiya Cab,
I do prefer to write about emotions. I find it to be my way of processing experiences; cathartic. However, I can also find my muse from causes or values of which I am passionate. I also try be straight forward as opposed to vague but hope that readers interpret what I write in a way that has meaning for them.
Thank you kindly for your feedback and I appreciate you taking the time to read.
Bless,
Mel
I do prefer to write about emotions. I find it to be my way of processing experiences; cathartic. However, I can also find my muse from causes or values of which I am passionate. I also try be straight forward as opposed to vague but hope that readers interpret what I write in a way that has meaning for them.
Thank you kindly for your feedback and I appreciate you taking the time to read.
Bless,
Mel
4th Jul 2019 7:36pm
