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EVERY POET'S FEAR
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JOURNAL #14 mirrored is the after thought
drowned by the weight of plunging doubt
so mesmerized is the emptied thinker
he is grieved by his own unraveled ghostly
thoughts
once thriving upon his now blackened scribe's
mind
he hurries around his next gray corner
only to be unsurprised by what he does not again
seem to find
pure and unguarded inspiration
blight less and hued ever so fine
the tall orders that scope new unswam waters
now leash the formidable fires he himself
used to mine
leaving him too shaken to even hold his own pen
poised precariously upon the cliff of the page
where once he seemed certain and so very destined
to win
now he can barely breath in his own carefully
constructed cage
he now finds himself facing the crueler side of
creativity
'Every Poet's Fear'
making slow work at taming the untamable
beast
his desire to write
grows at his defeat....................
(Aug. 26, 1995)
