Writing with Blood

The power of writing is stronger than we see. Just look at history. Slain many poets is symbolical to defeating them with words, bringing them to tears and revealing the truth. Not actually murdering.

I've bent the lines and broken rhymes,

But to settle my wrath is incredulous.

Anger as fuel, spiteful and cruel,

I write with blood spilled in mass.

 

I've slain many poets in my time of years,

Their weeping came soft as a song in my ear.

Downgraded entrusting lies that they sputter,

None shall speak of one or another.

 

Words written, expressed in their grief,

Tears and blood write differently.

True to the heart means embrace weakness,

Not blaming others in self-regret.

 

So a true writer is damned to death,

We must write to live, with each gaping breadth.

Sword in hand, dipped in ink,

The blood flows, into history.

Author's Note

Just my view on writers throughout history and what it means to be one. Also, the despair a writer would go through to write, like opening a vein for ink. I read it in a book and that one line, "Have you ever been so desperate to write, you had to open a vein for ink?", really got me thinking. Hope you, the readers, get the same feeling I have. Thanks for reading!

Reviews

[KAOlmsted]

Writers are tortured souls; we bleed ourselves dry with each piece we create. Luckily, hopefully, the blood replenishes itself and we live to write another day...it is on those days when the wound does not heal, when the blood does not coagulate, and the fresh blood cannot accumulate that we feel weak and anemic...on those days when the words won't come, it is almost as though we are lying face down on the floor in a pool of our own blood, useless. Blood on the floor can't sustain us; ink in our veins has the ability to resurrect. Really terrific write, Michael...great job.

-kimmer

[Michael Thrower]

Thank you so much, you just summarized everything I couldn't bring myself to think of in this poem. Thank you again :)

[KAOlmsted]

My pleasure.

[CHRIS ANDES]

yeah, this is so true coz our national hero really proved it to be true
..thanks for the share
=]

[Michael Thrower]

Thank you for the review ;D Glad you enjoyed it.

[Lost in Wonderland]

"So a true writer is damned to death,

We must write to live, with each gaping breadth."I loved these two lines, they were so true and well written and strong! Great poem, dark and powerful. Nice work Michael:)
God Bless

[Michael Thrower]

Thank you so much :) I love your reviews, they always make me feel so happy. I wrote this poem in an angry fit of rage too. So thank you.

[Lost in Wonderland]

no problem at all! aren't angry rage poems fun:P
But for real, hope what ever made you made is better now:)

[Michael Thrower]

Thank you :P I talked with my girlfriend and she really helped. It's great having someone who really cares huh? Anyway, the poem DOES, in fact, mean something. I hope. It's really inspired from a book called the Name of the Wind. And I was really only angry the first two stanzas, then that anger quickly evaporated. I tried to make sense of what I was saying though. You know, the pen in mightier than the sword. (Last stanza)

[Lost in Wonderland]

yeah I see what you mean. And it really does help when you find someone who cares:) I'm glad you've found her

[Michael Thrower]

Thank you, thank you. It's the work of God. It seems like only people in storybooks find that one perfect person.

[Lost in Wonderland]

no problem:) seems like He's been good to you

[Michael Thrower]

More than I can ever repay.

[Lost in Wonderland]

:)well I'm happy for you and your girlfriend

[Michael Thrower]

Thank you, and thanks again for all the kind reviews you've given me.

[Lost in Wonderland]

haha no problem at all:) you deserve them

[Michael Thrower]

You're very kind :)

[Lost in Wonderland]

thank you:)