What's Your Inspiration? Poem by Mary Nagy
What's Your Inspiration?
How are you inspired?
Are you inspired by the sun?
Does it warm your skin from deep within?
Is it your number one?
Is it the pounding rain
that makes you want to write?
When you hear the plop of the first few drops
is it something you can't fight?
Or does it take a heartache?
A pain that runs so deep.
A mournful cry that makes you sigh
for the secrets that you keep?
Are you inspired by sorrow?
The wretched lonely ache
of a lonely soul that has no goal?
Is this what it will take?
Do you look for inspiration
or does it look for you?
Will it be your friend until the end?
Tell me what inspires you.
Mary I never came across a poem asking an opinion on our personal reasons for our inspiration. but i see you got quite a responce.' I suppose mine is trying to let people know how i feel about the world, and really how i would like to see it.Perhaps I'm just a dreammer'
This poem is an awesome piece thank you for the good read....and Thank you for the comments on my work.
I agree with Anna. Plus I write because I am COMPLETELY loopy. my poem 'how I describe my poems' is partly discribe why I write, wonderful poets like you is the other part. liz
Sorrow is my true face, loneliness is my inspiration, I always fear that poetry will just vanish as I cry.
What a lovely thought provoking poem. It's the first one of yours I've read. As someone who just tries to write poetry for fun, you and others like you inspire me with the magical pictures you paint. To love and to be loved, happiness and sorrow all these things inspire me, Thank you for helping me, John
Mary, great question to end a great poem! My answer, if I had to choose one, would be heartache... and then I kind of branch out from there. Brian
MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSIIIIICCCCCCCC! And pretty landscapes: -D And... things I hate... we'll not go into that. Very nice read, Mary. - K.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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12/4/2025 10:35:45 PM # 1.0.0
Alright I'll tell you, things that we do and People like you! God Bless..................Love Duncan