Sometimes I wish I could just sit down and write poetry, instead of setting up all this social media stuff—poems are much more fun! Ah, well, it’s for a good cause if it gets the word out there. So much wonderful poetry and writing information, and so many events! I love that I am getting to meet new people who have such interesting and diverse points of view! 🙂
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Teen Poetry Contest April 2014
Young Adult Writers Group
Musings: The First Line…
Writing, for me, can be messy. In fact, it can be downright painful. I have almost wrecked the car on more than one occasion when ideas come to me and demand to be written while I am driving. Of course, the flip side to that is the torture, especially with poetry, of not being able to find the right word or phrase that will fit, no matter how much I beat my head against a wall.
I want this site to be a place of shared ideas and experiences, of information exchange and helpful tips, of discussions that provoke thought and creativity. So please send your ideas, events, poems, comments, and questions!
Welcome to my world!
It Don’t Come Easy
Write, write, and write again.
Iambic, romantic, aesthetic . . .
pedantic.
Should it rhyme or should it not?
Does it matter if sounds
like a John Philip Sousa march
stomping through my head?
You make it look as easy as
Pillsbury Dough Boy rolls,
poke a finger in his tummy
and pull out a poppin’ fresh poem.
My thoughts are racing, whirling,
tumbling like Brownian molecules
escaping from my brain
faster than I can write.
My feelings, writhe, scream,
wrenched from my pen
at three a.m.
in an agony of creation.
Somehow they never sound
the same on paper.
© 1997 JD
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