Flashes of insight, veiled back into the night
Sleep reaches for me
before the muse hands me words,
and I watch the day’s magic evaporate
from words back into the source
Will they come in my dream?
Only if I can remember
Will they come in the morning?
Only if I can assemble
Will they come at all?
Only if I stop looking
The empty page does not demand,
it simply grieves
The muse, that thrifty liar, has gone
to visit someone more in haste
I try to remember, and I try to assemble
But I cannot stop looking
Maybe you can find it if you’re more awake
NaPoWriMo Day 10 prompt – And now, our (optional) daily prompt. In his poem, “Goodbye,” Geoffrey Brock describes grief in three short stanzas, the second of which is entirely made up of a rhetorical dialogue. Today, write your own meditation on grief. Try using Brock’s form as the “container” for your poem: a few short stanzas, with a middle section in which a question is repeated with different answers given.
8 responses to “[575] Did You Find This Poem?”
Maybe I will. But I think you are the more awake of the two of us. So beautiful. As everything you write. Thanks dearly for letting me read this. xo
Aww thank you for your heartfelt comment
🙇🏻♀️
These lines stood out for me, Rahul:
‘The empty page does not demand,
it simply grieves
The muse, that thrifty liar, has gone
to visit someone more in haste’.
Thank you for reading and taking the time to comment 🙂
You’re welcome, Rahul.
“The muse, that thrifty liar, has gone to visit someone more in haste..” Amazing writing!!
Thank you so much!