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jellybeans
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0 posted 2001-07-27 01:05 PM


She owns me, oh yes
I can attest,
its not the other way
around as one would think
that it should be.
When she is happy,
all of my writings
turn up at the corners,
when sad,
they drip down the page.
I have no control over her
urges, she forces me to
do her bidding.
If miss you she does, I write.
If miss you she doesn't, then
she must explore why.
If my heart is breaking
somehow she feels the need
to publicize.
Oh she owns me all right,
if I try to ignore her at work
with her sometimes untimely visits,
well, lets just say she gets her way.
At night she keeps me awake,
promises of morning
will not do, as I search for
pen and paper to satisfy
nighttime ponderings.
And then for days and days-
for no apparent reason-
she deems to punish me
with not a single word at all.
I am a prisoner of my muse.
I would say she has me
confused, but I think the word
I am looking for is
bemused.

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1 posted 2001-07-27 01:13 PM



We sit and wait and wait and wait and the minute our hands get busy?

she beckons...

moody little thing...

thanks for this, little one!

jellybeans
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2 posted 2001-07-27 02:58 PM


thank you...it was funny, I saw it on a license plate, and my muse took it from there *g*
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3 posted 2001-07-27 03:52 PM


yes.... they do own you and leave you and return.... it is when you are tired of reading your own words... that they often run and hide..hurt perhaps at your lack of appreciaton for what they have done for you... or done to you... muses are a funny lot...

Nicely written...


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4 posted 2001-07-27 04:33 PM


yep, you seem to have a good handle on yours...perhaps a rest is in order....mine took a long vacation and now is back on track  

[This message has been edited by jellybeans (edited 07-27-2001).]

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5 posted 2001-07-28 12:42 PM


a poem from a license plate, I love it!

" I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be" George William Curtis"

Kathleen


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6 posted 2001-07-28 12:55 PM


Hehehe, I hate how true this is!    you have captured that tempermental muse perfectly!  
~Krista  

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you.
And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
~Winnie the Pooh

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