Chasing Inspiration
An Abecedarian Poem
Anxiously awaiting your arrival
But you’re never going to show
Can’t believe I thought you’d come
Don’t know what I was waiting for
Everyone told me to chase after you
For you would not wait around for me
Guess I should have known better
Haven’t I learned this lesson many times before?
Imagine wasting your time and energy
Just for someone who leaves you wanting
Knowing they will not come without being called
Let me know when you are ready
My muse, I will be here
Now and forever
Only you can get me out of these doldrums
Past this state of passiveness
Quiet though you have been lately,
Restless I have been for your company
Silence cannot be your answer eternally
To my endless pleas
Under great duress I know you’ll return,
Voicing my deepest thoughts
Which will lend creative juices to my pen and
X-ray me right to my soul
You will expose me for all to see, make a
Zoo of me and my tragedies
About the Creator
Stephanie Hoogstad
With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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Comments (11)
I didn't realize this was an A to Z poem until I got to the end. Very well done. I felt the despair of waiting in my bones.
Very nicely done.
I love this! Muses can be so fickle, and you penned this perfectly.
I love this, so clever how to compared it to a person, and took it a step further (someone who isn't into you). That's just what it's like sometimes! 😁
The yearning here was so intense and yoi packed so much for emotions between every line! So well done!
GREAT WRITING
VERY GOOD
This flows so well, you don't even notice the letters at the beginning. Great writing.
Good stuff, Stephanie. I like how this flows so well!
A song sung for us all. A zoo for all times, no matter how much we try to organize them, I feel this poem.
Ooh, keep being hit with these last lines of late.