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BloomingRose
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since 2000-08-09
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0 posted 2002-12-31 03:22 PM


My Mind Is A Dam

Here I am looking down at the keyboard
poised with my stiff fingers
ready to say something
but my mind is a huge dam
of tangled thoughts

so if it breaks

maybe then

I’ll have something to say
and be like a steady stream
of rushing water

there is something there
I can feel it

so I’ll wait


BloomingRose

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Toerag
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since 1999-07-29
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Ala bam a
1 posted 2002-12-31 04:13 PM


When my mind is blank....(which is most of the time and it shows here)...I just move from this keyboard to my electronic keyboard piano thinggie.....and it's so awful what comes out...I tend to get the idea that I need to stick to this keyboard...and it's usually pretty awful too isn't it.
Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04
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Texas, USA
2 posted 2002-12-31 04:51 PM


Usually, I write it before I sit in front of the keyboard. Usually, I write it 20 or 30 times before I sit in front of the keyboard, actually. But I'm known for oddity. I understand what you say here. Sometimes you don't have the least notion what to write. But I don't think you have too much of a problem, judging from this inspired poem.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

EagleOne
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since 2000-03-07
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Between a laugh and a tear...
3 posted 2002-12-31 09:01 PM


A feeling I know well, well said!

I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on... ~ Jackson Browne

janmew
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since 2001-10-27
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4 posted 2002-12-31 09:08 PM


Oh I know this feeling! Not just the inability to write anything, the frustrating writer's block ... but the actual itching to be writing, wanting to do it, but the muse holds back. Lovely write!


Jan

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