Banging head against keyboard...

[Linbido]

A two week hiatus of total absence of muse.
A brain on strike since Christmas.
A nerve that got fried in the New Year's fireworks.

Nothing comes out. All of a sudden I have nothing to say about anything anymore. Thoughts, ideas and inspiration is all around me, but for some odd reason nothing seems to give me the urge to put it into poems.

(Actually, exactly that just spawned a poem. The first one in ages, it seems.)

After an inspiring season, ignited my you wonderful people here on the poet board and my ever present Ice at home, I ran out of....something. What? I haven't got the faintest idea.

WTF? Does someone have jumper cables? I love to write, that's not the problem. I long to write. But whenever I sit my sorry ass in front of a keyboard, by brain turns to churned butter.

I think I'll have to shake some fog out of my head. It might take a while. And while I do, I won't have much to say about the fine art of herding poultry.

I love you all, and I'm still around, but until I get my head screwed on straight again, I don't think I'll be paying all that much attention to the forum or the flood of new poems. Because frankly, your relentless productivity is starting to give me a serious inferiority complex. How can anyone fart out such good poems on a daily basis the way many of the regulars here do? Is it really with such effortless ease that it seems?

hugs to y'all
-Lin

 

[Rybka]

Don't run away and hide Lin. - My muse caught the flu when I did in late November. I am better now, but it really isn't.

You can still chat and comment even if the creative juice coduits are congested and clogged. - Become an editor or even a critic while you can't do it yourself.


Regards, Rybka

 

[jthserra]

Stay calm... it's okay

I don't know about the others, but as I post the poems daily, I am mostly posting from my stack of poems I had written over the past years. I know I will go as much as 2 to three weeks without writing anything of consequence. Perhaps a few ideas on a notebook, a quote or two, or a definition of an odd word. From time to time I will review the notes, some unfinished poems, or some old poems. If the muse strikes, I run with it, if not, I will fiddle a bit, then move on.

Sometimes if I reach a point where I just want to write, I will reduce in scale, either writing just a very short poem, or step into the shorter forms such as a cinquain, tanka, triolet, roundel or something like that. Personally I try to avoid haiku at these moments because I am very critical of my haiku and I will find myself working the haiku hours later, instead of putting together some solid short poems...

Other times when I am blocked, I will simply use my writing time to read poetry. I have a lot of poetry books, so I will often pull several out and read, read, read. I think reading is an important part of writing poetry, and so even though I may not specifically be writing poetry, I am working at it.

I'm not sure if the above helps you at all. Hopefully, the understanding that not everyone is cranking out these poems consistantly day after day, will help your nerves a bit.


jim

 

[Guest]

Lin- that feeling of intimidation hits me too. It's difficult not to get that way surrounded by all this talent, but don't give in.

I found the challenges jump-start my muse sometimes - so what if it's not your best work. It's a start.

I hope you stick around - you contribute a lot of positivity to this board.

Tess

 

[champagne1982]

Lin, I'd like to remind you of the 4th recorded post you made at the Lit Forums on this is tihs ture? thread,

Let me tell you, for a person like me, with full blown dyslexia, that text was not hard at all to read. In fact, if i don't focus my mind like hell, all I can see anyway is the first and the last letter in most words. The rest are having a part mingling around in between. But that's quite ok, since I have learned to understand most writing that way. It's only now and then when a word or passage is unclear that I hace to concentrate.

Maybe I should call these guys. I might be an interresting subject for further study.

The quality of your work has made me sit back and admire your diligence and talent. It's okay not to be productive every day. If I interpreted you correctly in that post, I can do no less than be stunned every time you produce one of your beautiful poems. Don't worry about lack of product, it only means that you're recharging. Maybe some of the effort is being spent g e s t a t i n g rather than g e s t a l t i n g.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Don't go, Lin.

Just stick around, we're always involved in some discussion or other and we're only here because it's fun! To tell you the truth, I haven't been feeling my muse for almost a year, and I doubt I have put out much more than a good poem per month, but I never gave up.

It helps just to be around poetry, reading, talking about other people's poems.

You should enter the exquisite corpses thread too!

Just have fun!

 

[Linbido]

Don't go, Lin.

Just stick around, we're always involved in some discussion or other and we're only here because it's fun! To tell you the truth, I haven't been feeling my muse for almost a year, and I doubt I have put out much more than a good poem per month, but I never gave up.

It helps just to be around poetry, reading, talking about other people's poems.

You should enter the exquisite corpses thread too!

Just have fun!

Oh, I'm sticking, alright.

You might find me a bit flimsy though, since I'll probably just be socialisingg and yapping about general things (like my recent language post), and not get involved in any actual poerty for a while.

You say it helps to be around poetry, but I know the right remedy for me. I've had this blockade in other parts of my life before. For me, it helps to be away from it. Clear my head and come back to it later. I'm gladly around you poets though, since you are a bunch of great people that I don't want to lose touch with.

But I might do the Corpse thing. It seems harmless enough.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Lin,

I know that it is none of my business, but since you mentioned it, I wonder whose head are you bashing against the keyboard?

 

[Linbido]

Re: Re: Banging head against keyboard...

Lin,

I know that it is none of my business, but since you mentioned it, I wonder whose head are you bashing against the keyboard?

Oh, just some git who walked by.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Re: Re: Re: Banging head against keyboard...

Oh, just some git who walked by.

I hope, Lin, that you have a supply of cheap keyboards.

 

[Senna Jawa]

qwerty bang

 



    QWERTY BANG


            a git walks by
            and she bashes his head
            against her writer's block
            called keyboard

 

Regards,

 

[Linbido]

Re: qwerty bang

 


    QWERTY BANG


            a git walks by
            and she bashes his head
            against her writer's block
            called keyboard

I'm speechless.
Speechless, I say.

 

[Senna Jawa]

Re: Re: qwerty bang

I'm speechless.
Speechless, I say.

You? You?! What about the poor git?!!

 

[PVodogaz]

Never give up in yourself.....



Dear Lin,

Have faith in yourself, don't give up in your abilities for in your poems I see a beauty and a great craftmanship. Be true to yourself.

Poetry should not be rushed nor should it be fragmented. Let the words, let the ideas come to you, and they surely do after a time.

If you need to talk ever, I am here.

Regards

Petar