Ohhhh but I love your freewrite - it reminds me of a Billy Collins poem!
Flaubert
As he looked for the right word,
several wrong words
appeared at his window.
David Demro has just published his second poetry book. This one:
The Forgotten
I wrote a poem
in my mind last night and
fell asleep before writing it down.
This is not that poem.
Please keep writing!
You and I are in the same boat, somewhere at sea with no Muse communicating with us. Your Muse was always there for you in the past - lasso her, drag her back into your life!!!
Mine... my Muse is like my sisters and nieces, who get annoyed by me and give me the Silent Treatment. :)
Anywhere Imaginable by David Demro
I love both of those poems!!! Much much better than mine! Congrats to Demro for publishing. I'm sure it's a great book, I'll have to get it. He's a relative who values you.
I try pretty often, but it's like pulling teeth. Awful. And very strange, because I had no problem at all, astounded myself regularly, for a few years. Maybe it's hormonal.
No, no, not "much better" than your poems - it's precisely because yours are THAT GOOD that I thought of them!!!
This silencing of the Muse, this concerns me. Is it part of turning 60 (or more)?
Is it part of the Empty Nest syndrome?
May your voice come back, stronger than ever - Edgar and Elsie and all your fun, zany characters live on and await you being there to open the door. Usher them back onto the stage. We miss them!