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Away

by joanie 

Posted: 19 August 2007
Word Count: 37
Summary: ..........Surely, on holiday, we should be able to write beautiful poetry!!! I failed.


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Experiences recent
permeate my mind yet
still
I can't write poetry.

Cloud-clad pine mountains
fill my memory
but
visions fail to translate

into words.

Perfection shown in
postcard beauty tries
to
stimulate my creative

juices.

Barren landscape.









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V`yonne at 21:20 on 19 August 2007  Report this post
Now if you're are going for form, I would put

poetry

on a line of its own. I'd put

into

on to the previous line too.

I'm not sure about the last line. I lkie ti but...something...landscape/mind/postcard...needs to gel.


I'm telling all my friends. I'm the first person to get 3 pieces into Every Day Fiction e-zine. Were I young that woiuld be cool. At my time of life...THAT'S HOT.

Tina at 08:55 on 20 August 2007  Report this post
Joanie

Commiserations! I know the feeling - so often when you think you should you can't. My Granny always said - ought (as in ought to be able to) stands for nothing. But actually you have so well done!

Tina
x

joanie at 21:08 on 20 August 2007  Report this post
V'yonne and Tina - many thanks!

V'yonne - I love form, but this wasn't really following any pattern; rather than a worked-out scheme, this one was a gut reaction, I think.

Tina - I have had so much writing time these last two weeks, but I have written NOTHING!! How frustrating!

Thanks for reading and taking the time....

joanie

V`yonne at 11:24 on 21 August 2007  Report this post
Hi Joanie, It just seemed to have a form arising within it. Not a
Barren landscape.
anywhere in your viscinity, m'dear!!!

Account Closed at 18:21 on 21 August 2007  Report this post
Ah well, you squeezed a "writer's block" piece out of the barrenness!

I know very well what you mean. I have so much time available for writing, but where's the muse?!

Steve

joanie at 19:54 on 21 August 2007  Report this post
V'yonne - thanks for the support!

Steve, thanks for reading - it seems to be that the more time I have, the less I can write! Frustrating.

joanie

James Graham at 14:24 on 22 August 2007  Report this post
Just a brief comment as I'm getting ready to go away for a few days. The three main stanzas read like three new attempts to write a poem, and each time the poem says you've failed. Not that you have failed, but it's that curious paradox - a poem about not being able to write a poem. 'Cloud-clad pine mountains' and 'postcard beauty' have been done to death anyway, so it's a poem about not being able to write about a subject that's so well-trodden it's hard to find anything new to say. Back next week.

James.

Elsie at 17:12 on 22 August 2007  Report this post
Hi Joanie - It must be an August thing. I haven't been able to write either - well I have three half started kind of things. And when I went away earlier in the year I didn't write a thing either. September soon!

joanie at 20:12 on 24 August 2007  Report this post
James and Elsie.. thanks for reading anyway!! James, you are always an inspiration! Many thanks.

joanie

Ticonderoga at 14:48 on 26 August 2007  Report this post
It's amazing how a feeling of uncreativity can sometimes produce our best work.....I like this very much; though you may not have managed to make a picture of your holiday, you have given voice sparely and directly to something that should resonate very strongly with anyone who's ever attempted putting pen to paper.

Best,

Mike



joanie at 15:49 on 26 August 2007  Report this post
Mike, many thanks. It's so good to see you!

joanie


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