03-07-2016, 12:03 AM
Writer's block is what happens when you piss off the muse. Leanne's muse is always there, so she doesn't really realize what it is like to have the muse desert you...this time. So fuck you Leanne, that little bit of panic when inspiration seemed not to be there was when the muse had withdrawn. Get over your sexism. 
Although I am very glad for you that you got it back so easily, some people go for years without it returning and some just kill themselves. As you can see, it doesn't matter how much detritus one packs into one's noodle, if the internal spark is missing it comes to nothing. Most people have no internal spark.
And this isn't aimed at Leanne.
Anyone who thinks they write inspired poetry solely on their won resources is a damn fool. Arrogance and self-centeredness is the quickest way to a writer's block that I know.
Some things you shouldn't fuck with.
dale
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Midwife
Asleep, deep in the twilight part of night, sometimes
I’ll be awakened by a sleepless poem pacing in my mind.
Knowing that fighting is pointless I'll eventually concede,
give in, get up and write it down, vowing, "Just this one last time!"
Only to find the lines already formed, cadence set, as well as rhyme.
Though late and despite myself, this nascent being never hesitates
in fear: for like a babe full formed does this poem appear.
No part had I in its gestation, nor did it need me to create;
it need only barrow of me that small a priori part of mind.
Thus relegated, I play my role as midwife and womb surrogate;
an easy labor for this birth had been pre-defined.
Birthed from this mental wasteland a newly emanate light
to confound the drowsy darkness and conquer the sleeping night.
erthona
©2008 revised 2016
Although I am very glad for you that you got it back so easily, some people go for years without it returning and some just kill themselves. As you can see, it doesn't matter how much detritus one packs into one's noodle, if the internal spark is missing it comes to nothing. Most people have no internal spark.
And this isn't aimed at Leanne.
Anyone who thinks they write inspired poetry solely on their won resources is a damn fool. Arrogance and self-centeredness is the quickest way to a writer's block that I know.
Some things you shouldn't fuck with.
dale
_______________________________________________________________________________
Midwife
Asleep, deep in the twilight part of night, sometimes
I’ll be awakened by a sleepless poem pacing in my mind.
Knowing that fighting is pointless I'll eventually concede,
give in, get up and write it down, vowing, "Just this one last time!"
Only to find the lines already formed, cadence set, as well as rhyme.
Though late and despite myself, this nascent being never hesitates
in fear: for like a babe full formed does this poem appear.
No part had I in its gestation, nor did it need me to create;
it need only barrow of me that small a priori part of mind.
Thus relegated, I play my role as midwife and womb surrogate;
an easy labor for this birth had been pre-defined.
Birthed from this mental wasteland a newly emanate light
to confound the drowsy darkness and conquer the sleeping night.
erthona
©2008 revised 2016
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.