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To Lose Your Muse

What do you do when you've lost your muse

               And discouraging things seed a rooted blues?


Where do you turn when your sweetest verse

               Gets a critical snub that just makes it worse?


See, each little poem, birthed within your soul

               Is a part of the matter that makes you whole


And when your best comes up with a blank

               It's hard to know which nasty fate to thank


I imagine to others, it seems a small thing

               But the love of a poem is what makes it sing


If the wilt of your rose actuates some pain

               Remember that growth needs a bit of rain


So, put down the pen and attend your heart

               Give your muse some air ... and a fresh new start.

Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden | Year Posted 2018

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Janis Medders Tobechi Date: 8/23/2018 4:44:00 PM Sometimes it's a good fate. We're not depressed singing the old poet blues. Great write. Wonderful theme. Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/26/2018 1:51:00 AM Indeed! Well-put, Sian, and you are so right - thank you very much! Blessings, friend! :-) <3

Winged Warrior Date: 8/23/2018 8:24:00 AM I find this write quite a-muse-ing...its funny but when we lose it...its the first thing we write about...love & muse...^WW^ Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/26/2018 1:51:00 AM LOL - well-said, ^WW^, and thank you so very much, my friend! :-)

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart Date: 8/22/2018 5:00:00 PM You find a poetry site ten years later and your muse yawns and rubs her eyes and says "where have you been?" <3 Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/26/2018 1:49:00 AM Ha! Excellent - I'm so happy that worked for you, Mo - for your muse is certainly a fine one! :-) <3

Dale Gregory Cozart Date: 8/22/2018 11:09:00 AM Very sound advice. My muse has been out of town a lot lately. So I'm not fighting it. Good write. Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/26/2018 1:48:00 AM Thank you so much, Dale, mine has, too ... I used to fight it - struggle to break through - but I believe there's a REASON for it, so I just go with the flow, and go about other things until it returnes, otherwise it's just adding stress where I don't NEED to. Blessings, my friend! :-)

John Hamilton Date: 8/22/2018 11:00:00 AM Nice one Greg, I enjoy everything you write. The wilt of your rose actuates pain, so true, disappointments or losing a love although painful, eventually inspires writing that may console someone else going through the same thing! Login to Reply Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/26/2018 1:47:00 AM Very kind of you, John, thank you so much ... and you are so right. Love is certainly a wonderful muse, but so is growth, wisdom and heartache, (and often the former requires the latter), in fact, I'm sure I've written more poems about sadness than the opposite ... we ALWAYS pay a price for love, but as poets, we turn it into something beautiful. That's a blessing and gift that comes from above. I believe we are conduits, nothing more, but terribly blessed to BE so. Best wishes, my friend! :-)