The paper upon which I write
a testament to my failure;
words scratched through,
lines obliterated,
soon join
paper wadded, torn
strewn around the floor.
My pencil, nearly a stub
readies a new sheet,
a clean slate,
radically blurs back and forth
above the paper
as if frustrated to be put to use.
My eyes wander
seeking inspiration
from here to the floor,
suddenly fixated,
glued to one page.
Scattered among the chaos,
words scratched through,
I find what I have
been searching.
What alleviates my fear of writing,
of criticism, and elevates my confidence
to new levels.
I pick up the paper
assemble the words together,
I write,
“No matter what you write,
someone will love it.”
End of the poem
15 random poems
- I’m not listening by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Fairytale by Nicole M Nugent
- With Antecedents. by Walt Whitman
- Dolphin by Robert Lowell
- Robert Burns: How Cruel Are The Parents: Altered from an old English song. tune-“John Anderson, my jo.”
- A Tale. June 1793 by William Cowper
- The Essay on Liberty by Abraham Cowley
- Taylor Swift
- Нина Воронель – Харьков
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- Sonnet IV. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
- I’m So Good That I Don’t Have To Brag by Shel Silverstein
- Ouija by Sylvia Plath
- I Want To Die In My Own Bed by Yehuda Amichai
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
