DOING TIME ON THE WRITERS BLOCK

a poem about the influences of having writers block

Doing time on the writers block  Headaches only scalp the physical description or skim the surface my fingers map-out and in the blank lines connecting doubt desperation dead ends  dry  out  in hieroglyphic rain     Between you and that line the potentials  your mood swings    balancing the evidence you mistake for madness at face value, like the elbow shadows on the desk that riddle was formed before light was even discovered      hands god given in the word maze  clocking pain   each verb struggles an estimate that either makes or breaks day   and as it swings that tacky beat you us your heart moves closer to eternity’s bosom    the fate brain rapes against tree skin reminds you of the stone-coma epitaphs    never written    Inside the pendulum locks in a witness  clotting victims tracking  the  nostalgia, racing blood forgets now and then     against those bone odds writing begins mind crime stationary   it's scary exposed like that, line conned by the pros outliving you  the soul geology  your effort, instinctual  as the desire it takes to be remembered    but to see angels envy us at that very  moment   the spikes free of extending consequences   the universe  opens creativity winging the sacrifice our heads make below   leaving   dreams of cliffs on edges  setting      the cannons held the relics lust mix     timing        trimming echoes off a passing age   a soul geometry   never to see us coming but hear our words returning to live again

Author's Note

do what you must...

Reviews

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. hmmm ... if this is what you write when you're doin' time ... i wonder what happens when you're not ... i shall find out ... meanwhile ... here's a thought ... if achievement and experience were mutually exclusive ... and they are ... though we don't think so usually ... then this would be a magnum opus ... an epic ... comprehensive and inviting ...

[613]

This is so great. I loved the lines through each sentence. Fantastic work regarding a topic I feel most of us writers experience!

- Brittney

[Dye]

If this is writers block, I must be doing it wrong. I love the concept and the way you have it written out like scattered thoughts. This is great!!!

[writing mojo]

thank you Dye...what ever dude your an awesome writer...your doing it just right..Thanks for the review

[Dye]

You are very welcome, and thank you so much, that was very nice and unexpected to hear. :)

[poetry-kiddo alienbaba]

Whatdya know....
automatic writing!
welcome to the paranormal
(*_*)

[Frieda P]

Ha, very clever, I like the concept...you can un-cross out your brilliance now, the gig is up. If this is writer's block, I'll like to order several dozen cases please. ;-)

[writing mojo]

I have many cases, yet to be solved....thanks, glad you applaud my cleverness

[Frieda P]

You read me wrong, I applaud your talent.

[Mockingbird]

this is pretty verbose for someone in the throes of writers block...this is a very surreal trip of the externalization of an artist's mind in frenzy actually creating in a non-creative state. such irony. i love the images, though as i read through them, meanings are cryptic but i know they hold much meaning for you. excellent piece.

[Audrey Howitt]

This is cleverly done, but also very evocative of the frustration that we all feel sometimes in the process. Very well done!!

[Ed Hart]

you've got clever pasted all over this...the cross-outs, the con's eye view...good stuff

[Christina May Shanaberg]

Tell me about it. I have actually looked at crumpled papers and saw something there in the shadows to write about. Scary! You covered it well; words and I have been friends long enough, now, they practically write themselves! What really drives you crazy is when you are writing notes to write about your boyfriend and you end up writing about your dog or something.

[kmartell]

some crossed out geometry here, pretty good i hope you don't cross out everything you write

pulls up from a dive, connects builds its galaxies examining the self who is writer and pulls away just in time without knowing why

[Victoria PoetryBunny]

Well this is really interesting, for it to be for writer's block which we get, in itself is great. At the moment i actually have writer's block. :/ So reading this fits lolz. It's nice how this is interesting yet true, and the font crossed out and bold is great to fit the emotions of the words written for the poem. :D I liked these lines here a lot:
" ghost writing
insomnia
the phantom ties to the lost lover
where again
you can break even with past "