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Submitted by calliope on 3 November 2007 - 9:55am.| Updated 25 January 2008 - 9:18pm.
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The kiss of the muse
I have been deprived
Once, long ago,
My imagination thrived
Satyrs and nymphs
Run amuck
But the muse stays away
And my writing sucks
How do I get back
Her favor I’ve lost?
What can I do?
I’ll pay any cost
Will she return
With her loving kiss?
Or will this lost talent
Be forever missed?
(2 votes)

I think she’s already
I think she’s already returned. Haven’t we all felt this way at one time or another. Once again, nice work.
Marc
When the Muse
is missed
or elusive
it maybe for
us (the poet)
to attract
her back
I enjoyed
your muse
bait.
In ink,
Dabbler
ps.when my muse brings me no verse,it is my turn to amuse her with verse.
My muse is more often gone than here.
Neopoet fills the gaps at times, at others I can just take great joy in reading all your poetry.
IKNB “ps.when my muse brings me no verse,it is my turn to amuse her with verse” is perfect.
I may also slaughter a goat on a blue moon and run naked through the bush with lion, going flying with Kookaburra, encircle myself with the protection of crocodile (she is dinosaur size) and talk with the wicked Dubhain. I might be a weird elf but Dubhain’s sense of wickedness borders on evil, but not quite. Hey, our muses are many and strange, I even have a theory (stolen from Terry Pratchet) that particles of inspiration pervade the universe and we just have to learn to attract them.
Forgive my rant, it did me some good anyway.
Always a cheeky grin,
Jess
I have found a muse mint here at Neopoet as well.
IKnowBadPun
In ink,
Dabbler
fed like birth spirits
when our world was new
and gods walked the waters
there in the shadows
watched the muse
the veil of abscense
heartache and hunger
rootless feilds
structure and scaffolding
gone but not forgotten
poems are sculpted thoughts
that sometimes need
just our touch
not just the guiding strength
of muses
like lovers they return though
to keep us doing what we do
best
writing
Orgami verses Muses
not just words
of ink and paper
Para-dimensional
poetry
personal
and universal.
a muse doesn’t whisper to us to do what we do,
(those are the voices in our head)
a muse is a distraction from obstructions
(such as writers block)
a muse draws our vision to what amuses others.
(it is for us to write it as it is shown us)