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 ...

[An owl on the moon]

Very intriguing twist... rivers of thought that vividly convey that vague sense of thoughtlessness... drifting in that vast ocean of wanting.. Powerful and poignant.

[theunionisloud]

It's the worst punishment, isn't it? And yet, you're the only one that can set yourself free from writing about it... and you did it quite well. "Stone cold epitaphs never written in"... I like that.

[Lily Mae]

This brought a smile to my face.. it's brilliant :) xx

[Bubo]

Very clever, intelligent, and such a fabulous description of that evil block....don't we all suffer at some point, dream the words, see them, but cannot write them........the way you crossed through each line is very apt, and cements the crippling feeling. 100 %

remember your heart can only beat 30 words per second..........is this true?

[Samantha ~virginpoet]

another fave I am amazed at your talent and use of metaphors I have fallen in love with your work Please keep writing and sharing

100/100

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oh the crippling pain of the block..made all the more graphic through the crossed out lines..

[Mauricio Montoya]

Wow! There’s energy flowing through this piece. Each word just blends right in as if they were meant to be. I like the format because literally I’m reading between the lines. Excellent write.

[FlawedByDesign]

You've made the writer's block seem like a haunting and terrifying place and you sure did enough to have scared me into staying away from it.

Your word choice is tormenting, but proper to the subject matter at hand. Like Corey says, this is the most powerful write on writer's block I've ever read. The form is true to a mental block, but I hope the font is for effect only. And even then, I found it took away from the piece.

Well done.

[just rose.]

the use of strikethrough here is absolutely brilliant, inviting the reader to pick and choose what sense they want.
one thing about the digital age is, we can't see the scribbled-up, coffee-and-tear-stained mss. of yore. you've preserved the feeling. and we realize what we read underneath and between the lines is quite important. i really like this. well done.

[Crowley]

This may be the greatest piece on writers block I have ever seen...certainly punches the point home with the structure. and the stream type writing is very good and lends further to the point for sure. Great work.