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This is  personal.  I really did fear I'd lost them to TBI, like much else ...

My Ink and Muse


Self-transformation through karma includes a load of drama.
I should have bought a larger and deeper diorama.

When a crises fully shook me, I feared my ink had dried,
forced gone by the new brain managing my mind from inside.
To outrun the blues, my muse likely fashioned good-bye shoes.
Grieving my muse, I cried recalling decades we'd penned through.

I sought their return through all ways I knew stirred their core.
I read poems, played songs they loved, walked the ocean shore.
Four months passed with no sign from my muse or ink evident.
Next, I looked through my family pics and felt some sentiment …

So, I stared at pics of Dad and Bro, and well sensed my muse mush.
Their deaths years back, made muse wish to compose and ink to flush..
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025


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Date: 3/20/2025 11:16:00 AM
Ahhh, this is so nice with your personal touch and fun style. I am so glad your muse came back. There was some other poem of yours you had mentioned but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, I really like this one here. That third verse especially.
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Date: 3/19/2025 2:41:00 PM
I understand what is is to want to write and feel abandoned by your muse. But I see you are up and running writing wonderful content! Never give up! It seems in time you will always create! And soup will be waiting with me to read!
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Date: 3/19/2025 12:31:00 PM
Whilst you wait dear CayCay for the other shoe to drop, your spiritual muse shall find its way into your heart once again its inevitable, your here and now, how lovely is that. <3
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Date: 3/19/2025 8:25:00 AM
Hey CayCay, thank you for recommending this poem to me. This poem's emotional turmoil is very relatable. Personally, grief has been my main muse for many years, but processing it takes a while. I once thought that I buried my ink with my loved one. There was a hole in my heart that would not go away; I tried filling it with laughter, tears, music - nothing worked. I realized much later that what I needed was time. We can learn how to live with grief, not forget, heal with time. Be Blessed.
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Hiba Junaid
Date: 3/19/2025 10:32:00 AM
Can I just say that the reply you have written is a poem in itself? Absolutely beautiful. I completely agree; trials are definitely the way we treasure the good times, and call upon God. What I have learned is to keep calling His Name not just to fix my troubles, but to thank Him for the blessings He Bestowed upon me. I'm glad I met you, friend.
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CayCay Jennings
Date: 3/19/2025 10:23:00 AM
ALL grief in my life has stirred my muse for therapy, clarity and release, to live without it would be to endure painful cuts without stitches. The sharper the grief, the more a poem will flow on its own. Your comments teared me up, I ached for you as I have sat inside such dark. Pain is God's way of having us call His name, I believe, and the more potential we have for spiritual growth, I think the more pain our karma contains. No flute renders beauty without first being carved, no ceramic beauty without first being burned. CayCay
Date: 3/18/2025 8:23:00 AM
Coaxing the muse with poetry and song usually gets the ink flowing, best wishes
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CayCay Jennings
Date: 3/18/2025 2:30:00 PM
That's why it's a bit disconcerting when it doesn't happen anymore. CayCay
Date: 3/18/2025 3:26:00 AM
Awwn im so glad you found your muse back dear cay cay, its not easy for a poet when we cant express or when ink is mute. I have this thing about me, i need to write a poem a day, and that keeps my heart light, it’s therapeutic, and when we just express how we feel it feels good. Its good to share your experience dear talented soul as im sure theres many that can resonate with your poem! Pleasure reading your poem today! Sending you light today and always
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CayCay Jennings
Date: 3/18/2025 2:28:00 PM
Being in a season of faith challenging upheaval as designed for my growth, I have lost many intangible valuables. I couldn't bear that my only consistent friend since adolescence might be ... gone. This is meant to be a humorous, witty telling of the tale as befitting my happy when again muse-nudged. I think they are gifts from Spirit. No shrink has better clarified a feel/think, than my muse's therapeutic ink! CayCay
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