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Open Poetry #51

I Lost My Inspiration

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2021-05-21 10:20 AM

It seems my inspiration
Has left me, high and dry.
At one time it seemed endless-
It’s gone. I wonder why?

Perhaps because I’m older-
And some might call me jaded-
No matter what the reason-
My inspiration faded.

I once could write for hours
Of places I had been-
The fragrance of wildflowers-
The whisper of the wind.

The girls I left behind me-
The lifestyle I had known…
Although I can’t explain it-
The inspiration’s gone.

No sonnets to her beauty-
Nor warriors accolades-
Like green at coming winter-
My inspiration fades.

I wrote with vim and vigor-
I fear that was back when-
Since I lost my inspiration,
Might as well lay down my pen.

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 2021-05-21 04:49 PM

And yet the song it lingers, in the back of the mind.
Try to close your eyes to it, too often you will find.
It’s never drawn of leisure, but more compelled of need.
You’ll wake again with pen in hand, a poet has to bleed.

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

2 posted 2021-05-21 05:34 PM

Excellent reply, Michael.

Paul Wilson

Member Elite

since 2002-07-07

Posts 4711
United States

3 posted 2021-05-21 07:06 PM

John...I know what you are going thru.
Hang in there my friend, your muse will return...Paul

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

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

4 posted 2021-05-21 10:07 PM

Thanks Brother

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