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
- At Grass by Philip Larkin
- Михаил Лермонтов – Завещание
- Федор Сологуб – Словами горькими надменных отрицаний
- Creation poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- To Sea by Martin Zakovski
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сказка о живых мертвецах
- The Columbian Exchange Beginning With Spanish Colonization
- Myself and Mine. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way by William Shakespeare
- Rhyme by the Bog by Robby Charters
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Doomes-Day: The First Houre by William Alexander
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea by William Shakespeare
- Epitaph On Johnson by William Cowper
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).
