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
- The Editor by William Ellery Leonard
- Николай Языков – Подражание псалму
- An Oath poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: The Minstrel At Lincluden:
- Don’t Ceäre by William Barnes
- The Woods At Night by May Swenson
- In this World by Wendell Berry
- Face To Face by Rabindranath Tagore
- Dryads by Siegfried Sassoon
- To a Virtuous Young Lady poem – John Milton poems
- Михаил Лермонтов – В рядах стояли безмолвной толпой
- The Watchman
- Омар Хайям – Благородные люди, друг друга любя
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- My impure god and I by Murali Sivaramakrishnan
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).
