Bring my pen down to the sheet
Some poetry to write
Wanting it to come out neat
Hoping my thoughts will come out tight
Writing to flee from the night
But I’m stuck on this line
Searching for the perfect word
Praying it will come to mind
I almost hear it, but then it’s blurred
Searching, searching for that perfect word
That word remains elusive
Though I try, try, try
The noise I hear is mutually exclusive
And deafens me from my word’s cry
As it calls to me when it passes by
I’m missing my chance
That word is almost gone
It’s like my mind is in a trance
Wait, it’s here on the tip of my tongue
But alas it won’t be done
It plays with me for a longer while
Playing, skipping, dancing around my mind
But always remaining the missing file
Refusing to allow me to find
That missing word so very unkind
That’s it, I’m done forget it
I’m going off to bed
The word is never coming, I quit!
As I lay down to sleep my mind screamed in my head
How could you surrender is what it said.
I can’t sleep, this is useless
My mind keeps searching for
That word so all elusive
I toss and turn as the clock strikes half past four
Please go to sleep my body my mind implores
After hours of frustration
When I had but given in to sleep
After losing hope in my dictation
It suddenly dawned on me
That ever elusive word was Lorelei
Lorelei after the mermaid?
ReplyDeleteYeah.... kinda random, but it actually happened.... well not like I wrote it out. But I read a poem that mentioned the Lorelei and made a mental note to remember it and maybe incorporate it into a poem (simply I guess because I think it's a rather poetic and romantic sounding word) but when I tried to remember it I couldn't for the life of me. I then spent the next three hours (not exaggerating)searching the internet to find the original poem back to find my missing word...... and thus was born the concept for this poem.... short story long ;-) When I did finally find it, I'm not going to lie, I was a little disappointed.... but I had already written a lot of this poem venting my frustrations..... and decided to keep it. sorry if it's disappointing as well.
ReplyDeleteHaha I totally know this feeling!!!
ReplyDeleteNo, I like the idea. "Lorelei" is an elusive and poetic concept- I had to look it up and see what it was talking about. Makes me want to play with the idea as well... would that be idea stealing?? :)
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of words, I invented one in my latest blog post. See if you can find it: http://melany7.blogspot.com/2010/11/until-lambs-become-lions-swaggering.html
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