Cramping My Style - Imagination or Inflammation?
(Dedicated to Elisa Ashley)
I think I need a bit more time.
It's not a writer's block I face,
I'm concepting at warp-speed pace.
A hardware glitch has got me beat;
I'm squirming in my writing seat.
Ideas keep coming, fast and mean;
I just can't get them on the screen.
My carpal tunnel has gone bad;
Imagination's launching pad.
A typing cramp is in command.
And mouse-tics cripple my right hand.
It's not that I've run out of juice.
My poet's brain is lucid, loose.
I have a million more to write,
And each one will be dynamite.
I'd like to send the verse today;
Can't wait to hear what you will say.
The lines are captivating, sure.
Each stanza is elating, pure.
I'm sure you'll love the ending too,
If I could get it off to you.
But technical mishaps and snags
Have cramped my style; it fairly drags.
My digits are contorted, bent.
My knuckles' feelings came and went.
My hand is frozen like a claw.
This is a writer's own last straw!
Dear Editor: About that rhyme;
I think I need a bit more time.
I'll pound some aspirin and reload
And send you that poetic ode.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentI remember the boring poems we had to learn in schools; if only we had some of these then!
Another one we all can relate to.
You can rhyme like no other. Hats off to you!
Elisa - Thanks for the launching pad!