A BLANK PAGE

Written for Albert's Poetry Cafe "Word" Forum Challenge Sal's word was "Handbook"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A BLANK PAGE

 

You scribbled sharp sentences

on the pages of my handbook....

ripped and threw them away

I watched helplessly as the wind

whipped the words

into a frenzy and scattered them

 

Today I have a blank book

with no words to write

the ink well has dried and I

 have no muse

 

Why did you destroy my poems

penned from a soul that

declared love to you only...

 

I can't recall my words now

it all seems a blur

whisked away with those sonnets

was all I held dear...

 

No longer I wish to write, my grief

is too much to bear,

as I, at my desk

hear the echoes of a sad story line

 

What shall I do with an empty handbook?

a useless possession when one has

no words to write and no mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c) Helena 2008

 

Author's Note

THANK YOU FOR READING MY WORDS

Reviews

[Tony Hwilka]

This was one great poem and the imagery was sooo fine. You deserved to win. Tony

[Salvatore Buttaci]

Congratulations, Helena! You are the winner of the "handbook" challenge. Though all the poems were worthy of an award, yours took hold of me and I just couldn't shake loose. It was the kind of poem one can expect to find in the anthology of famous poems.

So it's now up to you to provide us poets with another word and whatever rules about it we need to know.

Sal

[angelina neves]

beautiful and so sad...
~ What shall I do with an empty handbook?
a useless possession when one has
no words to write and no mind. ~ draw, paint! the words will always come, as we can't live with out them!

[Donna DeLong Matthews a..]

What shall I do with an empty handbook?
a useless possession when one has
no words to write and no mind.

Just keep writing
This was wonderful and one I can so
relate to.
Hugs
Donna

[Ebs]

Heyy Helena.

Wow. great write. I love all the emotion in it and the words you have used work brilliantly with the topic.
Good one :)


Ebs

[Sharon Miller Bolander]

Helena, I would see your poem as a metaphor for lost love and the accompanying feeling of hopelessness. Its message is one to which many can relate. Well done, Sharon

[Salvatore Buttaci]

A great poem filled with emotion! It holds together well, nothing out of place, every word there because it has to be. I like the way you used the word "handbook" as a book one holds dearly in one's hand instead of a how-to-book which a handbook is!

Sal

[Ocean Orchid]

Great Job ... with powerful interpretation ...