Gene Bourne Poet Iambic Pentameter

Lines

Exhaustive searching, certain words you seek, 
Thematic flow in lyrical technique. 
You thumb through volumes searching for a line 
To kindle inspiration in your mind. 

Convinced a stanza finished, then rethink, 
As fragments fail to form a missing link. 
An expectation stumbles to a stall ; 
A pressing of your brain against a wall. 

Then seamlessly the flashing of a line 
So brilliant your emotions swiftly blind. 
Too priceless to be captured, you forget. 
The prose you cherish most knew this regret. 

Gene Bourne
03-23-14




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Teddy Kimathi July 28, 2016 at 5:35 PM Greetings Gene. Congrats for having your poem featured in the Poetry Soup homepage!!! ;-)

Tom Arnone July 27, 2016 at 11:04 PM A good night's sleep and the line may be restored! ;-)

Hansteven Selfa December 12, 2015 at 10:58 PM This is great! Especially the last stanza. :) -hansteven

Larry Berdoo March 30, 2014 at 7:35 PM Gene I can identify with this,~~~ I quote you;~~ So brilliant your emotions swiftly blind. Too captured, you forget.....I can relate with this madness when I write. To me it's like loosing a fish on my line. Thanks for sharring, Gene. Gene Bourne March 30, 2014 at 10:21 PM Thanks, Larry. I'm sometimes interrupted from writing and a sudden brainstorm of two lines will strike. If I'm still distracted these lines fade like waking from a dream. I appreciate your reading and commenting Your PS friend, Gene.