Caren Krutsinger Poet Rhyme

How Can You Write Every Day

But how can you write every day?
Asks one who lets words get away.
Ideas should not come that fast.
To someone with such a long past.

She means I’m old, I know it too.
Won’t tell her now, but will tell you
Read others work and write down words
That make you feel sad or absurd

Open a dictionary each day
I guarantee that right away
A word will pop up and then poem
About wind chimes, gargoyles, or yellow gnome.

Pretty soon you’ll write lists you see
Words that prance as you watch TV
Your subconscious mind never stops working
In each corner ideas are lurking

Poems of fairies, dragons, lions and such
Are being formed in your dreamland clutch
You are sleeping but your creative mind
Bats around ideas – fantastical and fine.

How can I write every day?
How could I not? I want to say.
Make a list of words and go to town.
There are poems swirling all around.

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Ilene Bauer April 12, 2020 at 3:59 PM amen to that, caren! Caren Krutsinger April 12, 2020 at 9:55 PM Trixie and will are taking a bit of a bow and she is waving her fez at you Ilene.

Gershon Wolf April 11, 2020 at 11:15 PM Great advice, so well penned! ~ gw Caren Krutsinger April 12, 2020 at 9:55 PM Thank you so much; I have been on a "poetic tear" lately which is why I can now stock up ahead on poems. Ha! I never could do that before.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart April 11, 2020 at 9:26 PM Awesomeness dear poetess! Love this!!! I see poetry everywhere, not always in words though ;), xomo! Caren Krutsinger April 12, 2020 at 9:56 PM I see it and sometimes WISH I had the words.