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How hard could it be, I asked myself,
To walk with words on a page?
For just one month
To hop and skip, jump
And run with words?
I know words! We’ve been friends forever.
We’ve balanced together on really high ledges
Placing our feet heel-to-toe, heel-to-toe,
Arms stretched out, hands hovering.
We’ve snuggled together in blanket tents
Kicked each other’s feet under the table.
We’ve even dive-bombed off pages with loud yells
And surfaced, sputtering, in unlikely pools.
So how hard could it be,
This February Pledge?
But this morning when I came out to play
All my words had run away.
They were playing Hide and Seek.
And I was It.
I love your poems. I don’t want to believe they are all one day jobbies. i just have a jumble of ideas for most days – something to work on but not really poems. I will persevere though.
@Claire: Claire, I go for months with things stewing in my head, mostly really slow boil, because I’m too lazy to put pen to paper — and that’s why things like wopowrimo are great — it just spurs one to get things down. Also, I used to have a pretty long commute and got used to ‘writing in my head’…That’s faster than pen and paper because it’s more intuitive and one throws out less. As I used to keep telling my students when I was teaching grade school: write, write, write — think about it afterwards.