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Open Poetry #30

A Writer's Obstacle

wickedbeautifulpoetry
Member

since 2004-01-03

Posts 84
Indiana, USA

0 posted 2004-01-21 10:28 PM

Eleven at night
Sitting on the computer
Chain-eating these
Grease-saturated kernels
Of popcorn
Gulping down
Watery root beer
From McDonald’s
Not fuel for writing
Fuel for a blockage
Of the arteries
Of the brain pathways
Of life
My fingers
Have
Disconnected
From my brain
All use
Has vanished
Limp digits
Fade into disused
Infamy
Desertion of talent
For any period
Of time
Results in vast
Emptiness
A barren valley
Of indifference
Words come out
Forced
Cliché
Unimaginative
Like a jigsaw puzzle
Missing a few
Pieces
Right in the center
Half the picture
Is missing
All intentional meaning
Is missed
Smacking my gum
In translucent
Fragile
Flickering
Bubbles
While
Simultaneously
Triumphing my
Mental obstruction
Assumed barrier
Writer’s Block

Justbleu
Member Elite

since 1999-08-31

Posts 3329
Oregon, Originally From Alaska :)

1 posted 2004-01-21 10:35 PM

One of the best and most descriptive pieces explaining the classic "Writer's Block"!!!
Well Done!!!!
I enjoyed!!!!
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

Justbleu
Member Elite

since 1999-08-31

Posts 3329
Oregon, Originally From Alaska :)

2 posted 2004-01-21 10:35 PM

OOPS AOL is a pain sometimes!!!! GRRRR!!!!
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again. To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown

wickedbeautifulpoetry
Member

since 2004-01-03

Posts 84
Indiana, USA

3 posted 2004-01-21 10:38 PM

Thanks, Bridgette!
Much appreciated.

-Katie

GG
Member Elite

since 2002-12-03

Posts 3532
Lost in thought

4 posted 2004-01-21 10:39 PM

ugh I so understand this...
been there done that, and hate writers block.
You said it well.

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

wickedbeautifulpoetry
Member

since 2004-01-03

Posts 84
Indiana, USA

5 posted 2004-01-21 10:44 PM

Thanks, Alyssa!

-Katie

Enjoy what you can, endure what you must. -Goethe

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