Lost Muse
Blog Post by Denise White - Feb.09.2011 - 1:07 am
When I in still place/
I have a muse, she washes/
Stillness, pen dormat-daw/
Photo in my mind/
Washes a certain stillness/
Pen like its dormant-daw/
Stillness sometimes does not bring on the picture or word or words that resonate with the haiku. I have to force feed the poetry. It is bad. When the poet/writer is part of me,( see site Washburn 2002), we can find the muse and the stillness finds the muse. I have to have it all. The words must be written down. As in this last haiku:/
Our conversations/
Words riding on azure waves /
Carried chair to chair-daw /
This is an image I can live with. The other two are mediocre at best in my mind. I have lost my muse along the way. The stillness shows the Way.
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About Denise
I taught mathematics for 32 years during which time I had my jr. and sr. high school students write books showing their knowledge in words and in numbers. I have been a poet and journaler since about the age of ten. I have poetry published in Northern...
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House by the Sea, Dot and The Line, The Three Miss Margrets, The Kite Runner,The Zen Of Creativity, Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone






