Writing To Me

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I sit by the clock, but I wait for the time
As I hold the pen over the paper.
The minutes go by and I can’t seem to find
The words or expressions: I’m vacant.

By siege, it seems, nobody will help me.
No matter how much I beg and plead
Day by day, I sit by my clock,
Wasting my black inked paper away.

It seems to me that I am pathetic
Writing is just not my style
And if I were to attempt to find inspiration,
Just one last time, I will turn to stone where I sit.

I wish I did not think that time was precious
So that I could just wither my life away
But I fear that there is so much more to do
In life and so much more to see

Yet, still, I sit and bite my nails
Just waiting for inspiration to hit me
And when I wake up from my writers phase
Remind me that this is my life

Writing is the life that I chose
And to tell you the truth it's not wasted,
As I sit by the clock in the middle of the night
Waiting for some type of lead.


Yucky, this 4 lined stanza annoys me... Blah!




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The first two stanzas, I loved. I really don't mind the four-line style. But the rest of the poem seemed to lag, as you dragged out your ideas. Writing about writing is a hard thing to do, and I thought you almost pulled it off but...you lingered too long on the ideas, not incoporating anything interesting or attention-catching, and so this dwindled into a mediocore finish.
Carpe Diem.



An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that life's going to launch you into something great, so just focus and keep aiming.
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