The 100 Word Prompt From Velvet Verbosity this week is Resistance:
Resisting Writer’s Block
We push against the tide,
Each day of our lives.
Sometimes boredom finds us,
Stranding us in a stimulation-free hell.
Deserting us in dull-hearted responsibility.
I can’t stand boredom.
It’s emptiness, a deep pit of monotonous days.
Is this maze eternal?
Has everything been done before?
Or is there a new world my soul is ready to explore.
Riot with resistance,
Fight with fury,
Distance yourself from mediocrity,
or else be damned by public juries.
Where are the visionaries?
Where are the seers?
Is this new world forever uninspired?
De-powered, de-throned.
Before I’d even started.
Making pleas to my muse…
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“Making pleas to my muse…” You, too, huh? Don’t be discouraged. She never listens to me, either.
Thanks. I’m not doing too bad now but I went through a very uncreative period recently and the memory of it is still wandering into my thoughts and my poetry.
I hate when I NEED to write I can’t find the time but when I have time then all the inspiration flitters away!
Great piece
Me too. Happens to me all the time and it’s frustrating. Yet when I don’t think about it I’m full of ideas.
“Distance yourself from mediocrity…” this is the hardest thing for me regarding writer/s block. Do I just write, no matter the substance, or wait until it is something I don’t, at least, hate.
Yeah, it’s always a difficult choice between just writing or writing good from the beginning. I’m still trying to find the write balance with this.
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Creativity and the muse seem to have their own schedule and they hardly ever give us the heads up. My muse loves to tease me when I’m in the shower with soap in my eyes, or just falling to sleep. Very inconvenient.
Me too! MIne seems to like just before I go to bed or where there’s no pen to hand. I’ve started stashing pens and notepads under my bed.
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