Poetic Reconstruction
I’m going to the hospital. I’ve made a reservation,
for I am much in need of a creative restoration.
I need an operation to regain my way of seeing.
I’m going to regain my glow–the fiber of my being.
I suffer from prosaism. Triteness clogs each vein.
My poetic diagnosis? Derivative. Inane.
The abundance of my poems does not refute the fact
of the originality that lately they have lacked.
So, take me to the hospital. I’m ready to be cut.
I’m ready to be lifted from my creative rut.
Unveil my eyes, unblock my brain. Clear pathways to my heart,
but as you improve parts of it, please leave the broken part.
For all the pleasures of the world do not make up a whole.
It also takes some sorrows to feed a poet’s soul.
Prompt words today are abundance, hospital, fiber, prosaism and glow.
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Although this was published, it isn’t showing up in The Reader, so I’m trying reblogging it.
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I enjoyed this. I feel like it could be a song
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Can you write music???
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I cannot. You will need to find someone with songwriting talent for that. (I do have a singing voice that is appreciated by fellow drunk people at karaoke, but that is really the extent of my musical talent.) But something about this poem made me feel like it could be a song
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ha… Actually, four different people have set my poems to music. It’s fun to hear what they do with them.
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Oh cool!
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Great use of the words. Fun poem that I would love to think would be great to set to music.
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Lovely couplets that create a beautiful whole story, with a memorable ending. ✨
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I can see this post in the WP reader. Beautiful poem Judy.
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Is it the original or does it say it is a reblog?
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Both.
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I’ll have to try to find it. Are they close together?
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They are both right next to each other and you’re getting comments on both.
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Okay I see them both now. Don’t know why original didn’t show up in Reader for me.
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It does happens sometimes.
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An amazing use of the prompts. I’d love that surgery.
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Thanks, Jenna.
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It’s Lauren. And you’re welcome.😊
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Sorry, Lauren. I knew that. I had been reading Jenna at Revived Writer…
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No worries.
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Very good, especially the last line. A great Russian poet Yesenin wrote that poets “have to dip their quill in the blood of their own heart.”
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I just LOVE that Yesenin quote!
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Me, too. It is so, so true.
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Thank you, kind sir.
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Exactly!!! Absolutely
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Take me to the hospital too, I have recently been showing symptoms of lack of originality.
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Sometimes I feel like I need this sort of medical intervention!
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