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Today at the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads, we have Isadora's Out of Standard challenge for the month of May. She says, "The poem is a curse" and I agree, so I have used her words to jumpstart my out-of-standard offering. Thanks, Izy!
the poem is a curse
from the universe
it haunts the back of my mind
no poem is worse
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than a word or a verse
that can’t find a rhyme
or a line
it sits in my brain
where it wiggles
and jiggles
and refuses
for weeks to be written
and yet I know
for certain it's so—
when it’s done
I’m sure to be smitten
with love for the look of it
love for its finishedness
love for its very existence
torn from my heart
through my fingers
although in my heart
it yet lingers
and smiles
like a newborn
babe
in my arms
Kay L. Davies, May 28, 2014
16 comments:
"torn from my heart
through my fingers"
exactly so! ~
From curse to blessing, you have nailed the writing process. Good one, Kay!
"when it’s done
I’m sure to be smitten
with love for the look of it
love for its finishedness
love for its very existence
torn from my heart
through my fingers
although in my heart
it yet lingers
and smiles
like a newborn
babe
in my arms"
Sorry to quote such a large portion BUT I'm in LOVE with this part!! Excellent work. :)
Very true Kay--this has great flow, and expresses to a tee that hideous feeling of the lurking poem that refuses to make itself plain.
Hair OM
This was...heart-wrenching. Gobsmackingly good. YAM xx
Wonderful rhymes! You have so much fun with this!!!
Wow kay, this is a very meta-realistic response. You hold true to the viewpoint and drive how the growl each poet knows too well! Thanks for posting on the out of standard!!!
I think you are so clever for writing like this. And a lovely poem at that.
Ah lovely--that is exactly true. Thanks, Kay. k.
This is wonderful, one so relatable to all writers.
Torn from the heart and through the fingers . . . love that. Trying to write a poem can feel like a curse at times until it all magically comes together.
Yes, yes and triple yes! Writing does feel curse-like at times ....
This really made me smile, Kay. I'm sure we can all relate to the curse of the unwritten poem.
love for its finishedness...love that! So often I am cursing unfinishedness :)
@ everyone — thank you!
@ Susie — unfinishedness is the worst
You have depicted this process so well and I love, love, love, "torn from my heart through my fingers."
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