Look Under the Leaves

Keith's Ramblings Carry on Tuesday brings todays prompt from a Shakespearean sonnet. I like it and I hate it. For whatever reason Keith's prompts always hit me,  broadside and it makes me angry and that anger moves my creativity along, grumbling the whole way... and moving the whole way.

While this still feels rough drafty, I offer it to you anyway.

 

Look Under the Leaves

Where art thou, Muse?

Hidden in a haiku line or

woven into a pantoum's sweater

There, your shadow is showing

underneath the essay's hook

I read of you in that three

year old letter I thought

I had mailed or lost

I think I heard your call

in the song of the journeying

bird or perhaps on that worn,

leather patch on the bikers back pack

Yesterday I felt your presence

in the graffitti scrawling, sloppy

on the women's room stall

My pencil hesitates to move

to stay this bumpy, nearly

invisible course

It is easier to claim

it is too dark to see

I wonder was it you

who left? That's the

song I sing but

a new verse wants to

be written that is saying

it was I who turned

my back on thee.

Where art thou, Muse?

Comments

[Eric Alder]

Pencil? Who the heck uses a pencil anymore? (LOL!)

Muses love to play hide-and-seek, don't they?

[Julie Jordan Scott]

I love pencils, Eric! I used one today to write this very poem! :-)

[Elizabeth]

I love pens, colored India ink. If I type too much, my fingers get itchy for the colors. Am learning balance, but it's difficult. And I love your poem, that searching in all those out of the way places and spaces. Maybe those pencils are the key to her doorway. I find that my pens sometimes do that,

Elizabeth

[Eric Alder]

I like pencils too. The only problem, besides their obvious digital shortcomings, is that you have to keep sharpening them.

I say, use whatever writing medium lets your words flow best. Most of my non-electronic writing is done with ball-point pens.

[Ruth]

Ah yes, hiding under leaves or in a dark corner, she's always somewhere about, even when we think we've lost her. Nice!

[Susannah]

This is beautiful. I really enjoyed reading. :-)

[nara malone]

Love this. Muses turn up in the oddest places.

[Shashi]

This is very beautiful and I enjoyed reading it.. and your reference to muse through various means was great.,,,

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