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Favor Lost

The kiss of the muse

I have been deprived

Once, long ago,

My imagination thrived

Satyrs and nymphs

Run amuck

But the muse stays away

And my writing sucks

How do I get back

Her favor I've lost?

What can I do?

I'll pay any cost

Will she return

With her loving kiss?

Or will this lost talent

Be forever missed?

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Region, Country: New York, USA

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marcm

18 years 6 months ago

I think she’s already

I think she's already returned. Haven't we all felt this way at one time or another. Once again, nice work. Marc
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 6 months ago

When the Muse

is missed or elusive it maybe for us (the poet) to attract her back I enjoyed your muse bait. In ink, Dabbler ps.when my muse brings me no verse,it is my turn to amuse her with verse.
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 6 months ago

My muse is more often gone than here.

Neopoet fills the gaps at times, at others I can just take great joy in reading all your poetry. IKNB "ps.when my muse brings me no verse,it is my turn to amuse her with verse" is perfect. I may also slaughter a goat on a blue moon and run naked through the bush with lion, going flying with Kookaburra, encircle myself with the protection of crocodile (she is dinosaur size) and talk with the wicked Dubhain. I might be a weird elf but Dubhain's sense of wickedness borders on evil, but not quite. Hey, our muses are many and strange, I even have a theory (stolen from Terry Pratchet) that particles of inspiration pervade the universe and we just have to learn to attract them. Forgive my rant, it did me some good anyway. Always a cheeky grin, Jess
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orgami

18 years 6 months ago

fed like birth spirits

when our world was new and gods walked the waters there in the shadows watched the muse the veil of abscense heartache and hunger rootless feilds structure and scaffolding gone but not forgotten poems are sculpted thoughts that sometimes need just our touch not just the guiding strength of muses like lovers they return though to keep us doing what we do best writing
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IKnowNoBox

18 years 6 months ago

Orgami verses Muses

not just words of ink and paper Para-dimensional poetry personal and universal. a muse doesn't whisper to us to do what we do, (those are the voices in our head) a muse is a distraction from obstructions (such as writers block) a muse draws our vision to what amuses others. (it is for us to write it as it is shown us)