Writer's Block Poem by Reason A. Poteet

short shrift noun noun: short shrift rapid and unsympathetic dismissal; curt treatment. the judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech archaic little time between condemnation and execution or punishment. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PERHAPS you are using the archaic definition? i hope you don't die from 'writer's block'! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - i like it so far, but i have a SUGGESTION. in these six lines: The new day arrives but dark does not lift, an overcast sky now leaves her short shrift. As lab’rers head home from serving night shift, some fifteen young bards pass her toiling there speaking but speeding away from her care to places of rest, to places of prayer. to ME, it would work better to make the sentence break between shift and some, instead of between shrift and as. and speaking or not speaking? is the writer's block-stricken poet attending a school for bards? ? the only place i've KNOWN myself to be around as many as 15 poets, in a short space of time, is here on PH. :) and the spawning thing reminds me of fish, which reminds me of food, which reminds me of ice cream, which reminds me that there is none in the house! ! ! yikes! i like the story and the rhyming. i shall send it to MyPoemList. thanks for sharing. bri ;) p.s. and if it's visits you'd like from other poets on PH, befriend John Westlake. he has some very nice poems and sometimes he seems to like to read a whole slew of poems by the same poet. recently i think he has left me about 30 comments on 30 poems in the space of a week and a half. i can't keep up with him (and do other things i want to do) .