How To Start Writing! Poem by Denis Martindale

I haven't got a single clue what I'm about to write!
So I'll just do what I just do and give my fancies flight!
Perhaps I'll write of films or sports, or TV shows I love,
Or maybe elevate my thoughts to Heaven's joys above...

I'm not too keen on politics, in fact, I seldom vote,
I'm not that fond of leaders' tricks that they ram down my throat...
Nor do I gossip to and fro with secrets that I learn,
Or strive to find out and to know what makes my stomach churn...

So let me think, what should I share? Some poem bound to please?
Or how about a brand new prayer to say upon my knees?
I've tried a sonnet now and then, like Shakespeare in his time,
So while I'm here, I'll try again, to pen something sublime...

But now I'm hungry, I confess, I'm also thirsty, too,
I'll try some other time to bless and pause to make a brew...
But you just wait! I'll write real soon! Be patient for a while!
Perhaps this very afternoon I'll even make you smile!


Denis Martindale,17 March 2016.