Reworked and reimagined…
The pretty words rattle and quiver
They shake the walls
And give you the shivers
Bless those words and damn the silence
Tap the inkwell
Cover the blankness
They flow like a river, swollen to flood
Burn like a wildfire
Drip like blood
Over the precipice they tauntingly hover
The chasm is deep
And seductive as a lover
To lose those words is just like a death
For the writer would leap
Not save his last breath
Love this and totally agree! I’m always thinking/writing/speaking even though I am not posting as frequently as I was. To lose those words to silence would be a travesty.
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Yes, exactly! I was thinking about how lost I can get in writing. To the neglect of everything else! Thank you, Matt!
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I am totally absorbed when I read or write. Totally. I am oblivious to everything around me! It’s both wonderful and horrible. Wonderful in that it feels spectacular, but horrible because I feel terrible when people speak to me and I don’t even hear them.
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Oh my god, me too! Most used phrase: “Sorry, what?” Lol!
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Yep! That’s why I have to choose carefully when I read or write, otherwise my husband is a widower and my kids are motherless. Lol
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And the laundry gets left in the washing machine until it’s moldy… Er…
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Lol! I have an issue I’ve been working and working on. I can’t relax unless the core of my responsibilities are complete. Until the main things that are needed to keep the house and family running efficiently are crossed off the list, which would make those things priorities, I suppose. Problem is, the reading and writing I need to do to fill my well and feed my soul end up at the bottom of that list or not at all. I’m working on that.
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Oh boy…. I need to work on the opposite! Like moldy laundry and dog hair tumble weeds! 😬 We need to mind-meld and balance ourselves out! Lol!
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Haha! Sort of like how the bump feature works on iPhone. I’ll bump you mine and you can bump me yours. Lol! Although bumping heads might hurt a little.
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Oooh yeah…. Ouch! I’ve never used the bump feature. Now I have to go play!
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I’ve lost many words and ideas… It is death! ☺
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That happens to me at 3 am… when I get most of my best ideas. I’ve started getting up to jot them down, because it does feel like death!
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I need to do the same!
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It’s the only way. Thinking you’ll remember in the morning never works!
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Nope it never works i agree! ☺
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Oh, I love this, Meg! Truly
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Thanks, Rita!
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Great little poem, Meg! I hate losing my words; especially when you can remember you’ve lost them!
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YES! That is the worst! 😫
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Oh, awesome. Yes, totally agree. I need a bedside pad of paper because I have forgotten so many late night ideas.
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I learned the hard way! Too many flashes of inspiration lost overnight. Of course, some of what seems brilliant at 3 am is shite in the light of day! 😂
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Ha ha, too true. Have you seen the Seinfeld where he’s trying the whole time to decipher what he wrote in the middle of the night? I’m the end he’s like, that’s not even funny! 😋
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I don’t remember that one, but I can certainly sympathize! Like this: http://pin.it/Z52ylqw
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I couldn’t see that for some reason…page not found.
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Ah, damn. It’s a meme: Idea you have overnight – Van Gogh’s Starry Night; idea when you try to tell someone the next day: badly drawn cartoon. 😜
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LOL! That’s about right!
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😜
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loved it
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Thank you 😊
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What a great ebb and flow to this piece, I love it
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Thank you Rob! 🙏
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Awesome!
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So true, I try to write things down as they come to me. Lately, not so much, but it will get better, I think!
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I’m sure it will, Dee. Hey, you made it? 😀
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Bad weekend, it’s better today…
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I’m glad! And no more of them to set you back again. ❤
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Good poem, but sometimes I want silence so bad. Life is a tale twice told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Can a writer’s word ever be as eloquent as silence?
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Ah, this is more about a writer losing the ability to write. Of course, there is an awful lot of foolish chatter. The world is in fact filled with idiotic noise, Cake. I mean damn the silence that signals the loss of inspiration, the blank screen, the empty page, the dried up inkwell. Same for the artist no longer able to paint…
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Agreed, to a certain degree. I am thinking of Mishima who came to detest the constant need to re-interpret the world through the medium of words, the position of a detached observer. But then again he was a very strange person. maybe its a cultural thing but in no way can you ascribe his suicide as being the act of a depressive. He looked forward and planned the event.
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One of your new books? I can imagine approaching death without depression. But it would have to be at the end of one’s achievements. A life used up, nothing left to do or see.
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I mention him in my story The Interview. It was the height of aestheticism on his behalf, it saw it as a work of art.
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That is a story I wish you would continue. Just a tiny bit further…
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Hmmm, i think this is one story that is actually finished. Lots of my other stories could carry on, but the ambiguous ending suits this piece.
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I would not presume to tell you what to do. I am however a greedy girl who wants to get her way sometimes! I think that’s why I started writing myself.
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You are
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Oh yes, how we leap for the right words! You,Meg certainly are not lacking it that department x
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Oh I don’t know…. I have my moments!
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Beautifully expressed! I’ve lost some great ideas from not writing them down, but have saved just as many by putting them in my notes on my phone, yet still have written them out. 😉
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I have lost so many great ideas overnight, I started keeping pen and paper handy. I’ve thought about voice recording but I’d probably freak out the hubs!
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OMG, yes to all of this! I always get ideas late at night or in the street, always at inappropriate times and I used to think: I’ll remember that…and then I didn’t and it DROVE ME MAD! So now, as soon as I get an idea it is typed up in the notes on my iPhone. Even at 3 or 4am. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve suddenly stopped walking in the street to do that too – people see me whip my phone out and probably think I’m a social media addict but I’m WRITING! Lol (and yes, sometimes those late night ideas that seem brilliant turn out to be complete shite in the light of day 🙂 )
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Hahaha! This is the reason creative people don’t sleep! I have agonized over all the lost ideas I didn’t stop to jot down!
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