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crypticbard
crypticbard
Jan 29, 2011 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

A Craving for Writer's Block

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I slaver with anticipation
as your taunts fly past
let me grapple you
while your fangs pierce
and vilest venom spreads

numb my soul and mind

let me scream and cringe
agonise upon this page
let blankness reign supreme
slay this potent pen
for all of eternity

make your emptiness pristine

hover around my carcass
you scavenging vulture
eat away my rotted entrails
tear at sinews, limb from limb
pluck blind eyes and vitals

drain the fluids of creativity

cloying leech on pallid skin
halt my writing and my speech
in your acid, my verses bleach
let me writhe, mouth agape
drink your unquenchable thirst

hit me hard with writer's block

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About This Poem

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: West Moreton, AUS

Favorite Poets: There is nothing quite as boring as a life completely devoid of shadows.

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Comments

K

Kailashana2

14 years 5 months ago

Hell, no!

Hell, no!
It won't flow!

"I appreciate moderate constructive criticism". Poor muse. ;-)

~A

Frederick Kesner

Frederick Kesner

14 years 5 months ago

:-))

You are too kind and funny. Thanks for starting my week off with a happy smile!

S

scribbler

14 years 5 months ago

cravings

careful what you ask for lol.....................scribbler

Frederick Kesner

Frederick Kesner

14 years 5 months ago

Now that you mention it

I may have not only thrown the gauntlet at the blocking gods but slapped them around a bit with it as well. Oh well, at least I found a newish tack at battling them off the next time they come around. Thanks for dropping in and responding to this poem.

Frederick Kesner

Frederick Kesner

14 years 5 months ago

Thanks Rosina

I am happy to find appreciation for this poem. It was in response to Dan's "kind-of challenge" to write a poem about craving for writers block. I found the process rather freeing, actually! Thanks again for your kind words in response.

Frederick Kesner

Frederick Kesner

14 years 5 months ago

Well A~

Dan has written his and so has loved. I've put this up to air out the dirty line-dry and you are most welcome to join in. You'll find the gauntlet on the ground in my blog about writer's block "there is more to you."

loved

loved

14 years 5 months ago

It is beyond

the comprehension of loved

and what you want to convey
the bard of bards
be as you may

Frederick Kesner

Frederick Kesner

14 years 5 months ago

:-))

Thanks Ian. A viral infection or sorts it must be, it is very catching... mind I be running away with thee.

K

Kailashana2

14 years 5 months ago

hahaha! on a personal note, and in the spirit of serendipity or

hahaha! on a personal note, and in the spirit of serendipity or coincidence or the abuses of our muses, I just told Barry this morning "I feel like I've been slimed*. How weird is that that we are all hard wired to one another, into the Matrix of living?

The self-destruct virus, however, is software programming. ;-)

~A