A Writer Must Write
Writer's - at a Loss for Words
At a loss for fodder still;
The words must spill
Upon the page;
A rant,
A Poem,
A Rage;
They groan!
They must write for:
To write is to breathe,
To write is to eat,
To write is to live in a quiet retreat,
Of their making.
Without taking a break,
Make no mistake,
Even if pure non-sense;
A writer writes,
To the consequence,
Of filling the page.
For they must engage,
With pen and pad,
With a flinch or in fray.
The page begs "Come hither...
Do this or whither"
To blacken a page,
Is better than not;
A writer must write
For this is his lot!
Loraine Alkire
September 08, 2010
Epilogue:
This is My Pact
From this day forward I will be a writer with blacked up pages. I will be a writer for good or bad and I will have blacked up pages. And I will call myself a writer whether I mean it or not. And I will black up pages whether I use shoe polish or pixels. I'll black up some pages because from now on I am no longer a writer of blank pages.
Just write? Does anyone know my pain?
Written by Loraine Alkire- Circa 1995
Published by Loraine Alkire
Loraine Alkire is a freelance writer and cultural humorist living in Southern California. Alkire has had three amazing careers and a lifetime's worth of experiences to draw from in love, laughter, playtime... View profile
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8 Comments
Post a CommentI hear you.
With all that passion in you, you will keep you pages with print.
Yep, time to black up some pages. :)
I'm a reader who depends on the writer. I wish I could abandon the reponsiblities that restrain me from the indugence to read with abandon. Well done Lorraine!
I think it's what binds all of us writers together, and you are absolutely "write"!
I feel ya! Good one!
Write on. Let's all just do write puns!
You got that "write"!