"Everyday in every way I’m getting better and better" - Emile Coue
Thursday, April 6, 2017
A pen(ny) for distraction
I dance with shadows
and gather figments of last night's dream
To the beat of syllables
I compose & decompose
Don't strangle me if you're lost for words
or stab my feet if you're angry
I ink your letters in a hurry
Spill your secrets in a diary
Doodle your daydreams in paper
Carve names on walls of skyscraper
My skin maybe cheap as plastic
But my breath is blue
I nibble stardust while
you ponder on just the right word
And when I'm inspired, pour sweet
distractions all over the page
Posted for D'verse Poets Pub - OpenLinkNight - Taking another stab at Lillian's anthropomorphism prompt. Join us when the pub opens at 3pm EST ~ Thanks for the visit ~
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I have never written poetry with a pen... I'm totally dependent on a keyboard. But I do love the voice of your pen.
ReplyDeleteLike this stardust nibbling pen... write on the computer though!
ReplyDeleteI love your poetic pen, Grace! I do both: I scribble some ideas, phrases, lines and stanzas in a notebook when I'm out and about or in the middle of the night when the computer is switched off, or in the morning when I have 'figments of last night's dream' still in my head, and then other times I type them into a 'new ideas' file on my laptop.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite lines:
'I nibble stardust while
you ponder on just the right word
And when I'm inspired, pour sweet
distractions all over the page'.
I didn't realize at first that this was your pen talking. Once I did, I reread it. And still the same stanza stood out to me as a favorite, only it made more sense the second time through:
ReplyDeleteMy skin maybe cheap as plastic
But my breath is blue
Like Kim, I jot down ideas and midnight epiphanies, then refine on the computer. I love the "nibble stardust" words!
ReplyDeleteI write by hand too and I love the voice you have given to your pen. Like Kim, my favourite stanza is
ReplyDelete'I nibble stardust while
you ponder on just the right word
And when I'm inspired, pour sweet
distractions all over the page'
I ink your letters in a hurry
ReplyDeleteSpill your secrets in a diary
Doodle your daydreams in paper
Carve names on walls of skyscraper
Sigh.. this is soo beautiful!❤️
Words are magic, however they come to life.
ReplyDeleteExcellent use of anthropomorphism. I do like a nice pen, although I too have opted for the cheap ones in the end. I thought the blue breath was particularly evocative.
ReplyDeleteI find writing with a real pen much more relaxing than keyboards, if totally inefficient in a simple sense...
ReplyDeleteI like the blue breathing.
Words sure can flow and help things grow
ReplyDeleteI like the ink as breath, and "nibble stardust" is beautiful.
ReplyDeleteWonder, as we move away from pens and pencils, and become totally dependent on computers, if we're losing a part of ourselves, without realizing it. Myself, I use a black ink pen, to write about half of my poems, especially, when I am travelling on transit, to my various medical appointments.
ReplyDeletei love that you doodle and scribble too! inspiration hits and the pen flies across the page, every word of a writer's passion you capture it here so well. the pen awaiting the instruction to record for posterity the writer's thoughts and dreams. you words always inspire me.
ReplyDeleteI nibble stardust while
ReplyDeleteyou ponder on just the right word
And when I'm inspired, pour sweet
distractions all over the page
How nice to have a partner for inspiration, human or otherwise, it works wonders!
Hank
Fine work, Grace. I love the title, the first two stanzas, and the last two lines.
ReplyDeleteWhat we write are kind of like sweet distractions.
ReplyDeleteHinting of a greater treasure earning to be appreciated
ReplyDeleteLove where you took this Grace--loved the opening especially!
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter how you write, just that one does. I keep my poems in my head for years until they are ready and then, on the computer, I write them. It took me a couple of secs to realize this was your pen! and when I did, I reread it in a different way. Love the nibbling pen.
ReplyDeleteThe stardust nibbling and those opening and closing lines - exquisite.
ReplyDeleteLovely. They say that writing with a pen accesses our right-brain, our most creative side. No doubt in ways that typing may not, although both hands are used so who knows.
ReplyDeleteMy skin maybe cheap as plastic
ReplyDeleteBut my breath is blue
I nibble stardust while
you ponder on just the right word
And when I'm inspired, pour sweet
distractions all over the page.............Magical!
oh how beautiful to hear it from a pen!
ReplyDeleteink's blue breath and nibbling on stardust while the writer is busy thinking, straining ... beautiful.
ReplyDeleteCareful with that wee plastic being...your pen is on fire ;)
ReplyDeleteI have oodles of notebooks full of scribbles...I still write with a pen or pencil as well as type.
I'll be honest (what is there to be?) I had to look up the definition of anthropomorphism.
ReplyDeleteI am confused about the theme here, I see attributes on display but I am missing the to whom or what.
I will say though that this has wonderful rhythm and imagery.
This is my favorite poem of yours so far. I haven't been reading your poems for very long yet, Grace, but they inspire me. That is, they do so much more than just please me, they inspire. Thank you so much for sharing them!
ReplyDeleteMy skin maybe cheap as plastic/But my breath is blue...what a fantastic image of a pen!
ReplyDeleteI love this! Of course, I use my trusty pencil, but I do think it makes the poetry much more personal.
ReplyDeleteFabulous, Grace! (I'm reading through links list backwards.) My pen definitely inks distractions...and the rough drafts of most of my poems. It feels good to work it out with pen on paper first :)
ReplyDeleteI love this one! It was a pleasure to read.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is so lovely! A pen nibbling stardust... I love this so much! :-)
ReplyDeleteVery nice, Grace. I really like the title, too.
ReplyDeleteThe close on this is utterly wonderful ... in so many ways!
ReplyDeleteI like the part about dancing with shadows. I've used that image a few times myself.
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