This Need [repost for SHDP's Challenge]

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Open Poetry #42

This Need [repost for SHDP's Challenge]

Gentle Spirit
Member Patricius

since 2000-10-09

Posts 13989

0 posted 2008-03-03 07:20 PM

Should I ramble now,
     or hold these thoughts
here inside
where they rest,   residing
in dormant places;
or let them flow

from pen to paper?

Dormant, my visions
have been for so long

        locked within

but unknown to me
as to reasons of why.

The silence in the air
        lingers so,
although all that surrounds
is turned up as loud
as it can possibly go

but still....

the quiet is found within

   {and what will be, will be...}

I had begged,
I had pleaded

          but tonight?

Tonight, I did not ask,
no, I nary even gave thought
to the writing of words

the voice of inner
steadily increased in volume
until all other sounds
were diminished into
a distant back round,

and I, though being aware
of their existence
no longer acknowledged them.

This prevailing need
took precedence
to a moment seemingly
predetermined,
no longer to be repressed....

days having passed,
    a muse in isolation,
enduring this separation
of thoughts,    no longer flowing.

      {Sweet release would be welcome}

The mind says,
the pen
       can not,

will not write,

but my soul screams    you must....

        You must....

Today, I did not think to write,
but the need told me

that it was time....

[This message has been edited by Gentle Spirit (03-03-2008 08:21 PM).]

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-03-03 07:55 PM

I so understand your thoughts, Donna.
I feel such a need to write and sometimes it just flows and other times... nothing.
When your muse IS active she does wonderful things.
Ida

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

2 posted 2008-03-03 09:02 PM

Yes, this is it!
And .. I do so love
when your need speaks.

xoxoxo
A

LadyTom
Member

since 2008-02-29

Posts 353
LA, CA

3 posted 2008-03-04 01:24 PM

very good. Very good!!!
enjoyed.

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