PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

The poem may feel to you like: The poem may feel to you like it was a bit forced, but this is only one of the falsifications of the writer's block you have experienced.  To me (admittedly an old man, but I have been reading poetry since the spring of 1973), the poem flows quite well, without any evidence of being forced, and it describes what is, unfortunately, too universal an experience.  I went through something like this way back when my life was at its lowest ebb in 1981.  I thought I would never escape it, but, paraodoxically, the feeling of never escaping is just a distraction while time, passing, effects the escape.  (I recommend Mary Shelley's Introduction to the 1831 edition of her novel, Frankenstein, for her description of the enormous frustration of writer's block.)  That you have written this successful and eloquent poem suggests, to me, that the writer's block is beginning, like an untimely fog, to dissipate from you.