So, I am participating in an online 365 Day poetry challenge on Facebook. It has been so long since I’ve dedicated myself to my first writing love, and I’ve missed it. Of course, I’m behind on the challenge, which is to write a poem each day based on a prompt. Today, I’ve written the poems for Days 4 & 5 when I should be on Day 9, but I don’t care. Poetry is therapy for me, and sometimes it’s more important what comes out than when. As I finish up two Bobbie Isabel projects and start a new Leya Layne project, I’m glad to have a daily outlet. Anyway, all that to day that one of the poems I wrote today is now my new favorite.
The prompt was to write a poem using two lines of song lyrics for every two lines of my own to create a cohesive poem. Here is the outcome:
Roadmap to Writing
Words exist in the absence of thought,
Or is it the other way around?
“Does anybody have a map?
Anybody maybe happen to know how the hell to do this?”
I put pen to paper, but the inkwell smears across the page.
I put fingers to keys, but a crossword kaleidoscope escapes.
“I don’t know if you can tell
But this is me just pretending to know.”
An outline sounds great until it stifles my creativity.
The words come out stunted, no emotion in sight.
“Can we try to have an optimistic outlook, huh?
Can we buck up just enough to see the world won’t fall apart?”
I dream of world I can’t see
And hope my words hold them together.
“Maybe this year, we decide
We’re not giving up before we’ve tried.”
But what if no one reads them?
What if the blank page wins?
“This year we make a new start.”
Song: Does Anybody Have a Map from Dear Evan Hansen by Jennifer Laura Thompson and Rachel Bay Jones