B: Xxxxxxxiiii: Writer's Block Poem by Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Douglas Scotney

Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide

B: Xxxxxxxiiii: Writer's Block



A recent survey
Shares the way to stall the end
Says everyone should heed

I wouldn't see the need
For gladiators
Or alchemists
Poets too
Unless they've got the block

To get up after sitting 20
And go out walking 2

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
77. 'Spleen III'
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Daniel Brick 24 October 2018

WOW! What strikes me is the company I keep as a poet: I share space with gladiators at one extreme and alchemists at the other. This is like Yeats's Choice between possible lives. You don't tell me what these two roles entail, but I choose to join with the alchemists because they seek to transform the inner self, and I see that as poetry's ultimate goal

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Danny Draper 21 October 2013

Such blocks around and inspiration would return or endorphins forgive the initial preoccupation.

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Douglas Scotney

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Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. Resides in Adelaide
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