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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 2013-08-17 04:23 PM

The Pen

It's just a pen, so tell me why
It can't write words I want it to?
...Of smiling face, of gleam in eye.
Or even love found ever true.

It's just a pen; it has no mind,
So how can it contradict me—
Paint me like a fool, colorblind
To richness in life I can't see?

It's just a pen I hold in hand,
A tool to pry open my soul;
Though most would never understand
These words aren't something I control.

And in the end, just know it's true,
This pen is but the legacy
I hope never cuts into you
The way it has cut into me.

My muse, sole bearer of this gift
I have to give, so give in kind;
I wish, just once, could help me lift
This pen to better humankind.

Michael Anderson

BluesSerenade
Member Patricius

since 2001-10-23

Posts 10549
By the Seaside

1 posted 2013-08-17 05:59 PM

It is our own wheels turning that puts that pen to paper....Hold on to your pen now ya hear!!!
You write some honest truths and turn it into poetry and that's not an easy thing to do.

...seriously for me, writing fluff is challenging to say the least.

swampguy
Member

since 2013-08-04

Posts 83

2 posted 2013-08-17 08:35 PM

Ahhh the pen, Michael, is the conduit to our soul and that stubborn Muse that we all have and sometimes with we didn't.

~*~ The heart does not go backward, only the mind. ~*~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2013-08-21 10:41 PM

fine writing...James

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

4 posted 2013-08-22 06:22 PM

MIchael...I know exactly how you feel. My pin has dried up, but i'm not sure that it is better to write of heartache and pain or to not write at all.
Take care my friend...Paul

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

paderewski
Member

since 2011-02-04

Posts 287
Louisiana, USA

5 posted 2013-08-22 06:50 PM

I was swampguy, Michael, but now am Paderewski. Any chance You or someone could restore me back to JerryPat2? Just wondering . . .

~*~ Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes. ~*~

Michael

Moderator

Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

6 posted 2013-08-22 07:24 PM

Not something I can do for you, Jer... so far as I know anyway, but I will let the admins know you are requesting it.

Michael

paderewski
Member

since 2011-02-04

Posts 287
Louisiana, USA

7 posted 2013-08-22 07:58 PM

Thanks Michael.

~*~ Haunted French pancakes give me the crepes. ~*~

Larry C

Member Patricius

since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

8 posted 2013-08-28 12:28 PM

Michael,
You express well the drought of the pen. Apparently the drought has ended.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

9 posted 2013-09-21 03:04 PM

I think this is one of your best ever, Michael.
Ida

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

10 posted 2013-09-21 05:44 PM

careful what you ask for Michael.... Ask and you shall receive. You never know when an "updraft" will hit you or how your "blues" will strike someone else. You may have already done more than you know.

Lori

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