Demused
My muse is on sabbatical. I think she’s feeling surly
from umpteen years of being awakened way too early
to find a rhyme for “rainbow ” that my readers judge sublime,
only to discover every single time
that I get all the credit for the work she does
each new day in succession. And why? Simply because
she happened to be sanctified and then assigned to me
to insure a steady flow of poetry
without making an agreement regarding who’d be credited
as author of the poems conceived, then written and edited.
So now I seek to rectify my decades-long misdeed
by saying that hereafter, I certify and cede
half the writing credits to my muse of inspiration,
hoping the result will be she’ll come home from vacation,
refreshed, newly-inspired and forgiving of my sin,
full of new ideas and ready to begin.
Prompts today are succession, surly, sabbatical, sanctify, arise and rainbow. Image by j Jo Justino on Pixabay.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Ha, I love it, and well said, though I must say that a time check will show that I had posted my comment about Demused or even Bemused fiction before you posted this~!
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Happened to me last week – to use a prompt from today, I wonder off some place for a sabbatical?
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Well, if you do, you might run into my muse and steal my next poem!!!!
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Another brilliant work
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I read this to my muse… equal credit!!!
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🙂
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Was she amused?
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I’m sure she was bemused
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Whoever inspires your poetry does a great job Judy.
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Muchas gracias, Sadje…
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You’re most welcome
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You are doing pretty well on your own, so your muse should be concerned that you might fire her when she comes back.
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I could do without the muse, perhaps, but I’m addicted to the prompts.
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One of the safest addictions, and a healthy one, too.
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My muse got the word from yours that she’d like you to start at least ONE poem with, “Tell me O Muse” She just wants a little acknowledgement.
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Man. I thought my muse was bossy. Now you’ve put another one on my back?
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Hope your muse returns soon, but I rather liked this even without her help!
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