Writing Poetry posted July 18, 2018

RodG

I taught English for 40 years on the high school and college level. Since retiring, I have written a poetry collection titled "Reflections of a Dog Walker," and five novels, all unpublished. I mostly post poems and short stories.
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Writers block can come suddenly.

Frustrated Writer

by RodG

Was it only yesterday
when words
like a swollen mountain stream
roared
through a draw
cascading
over rocks
in a
ceaseless
rush?

Today that stream's
all but frozen
each word
a chunk of ice
broken crudely
off
a snow-clogged bank
flowing
slug-
Ish-
ly
to a
dark . . . still
pool.

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Please write a free verse poem. Any topic. No rhyming patterns.

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Writers block can come suddenly.

Frustrated Writer

by RodG

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