How faithless is the muse?

Question

To all of you writers and poets, how faithless is the muse of verse? One day whispering in my heart, next day gone elsewhere. In vain I search for my inspiration, days go by and my pen has dried up... never know when she will come back.. Is there a cure for writer's block?

Answer 1

I don't know. Those that seek inspiration rarely finds it. I think it mostly finds you and in the most unlikely places. Say tonight, after dinner, you're doing the dishes then all the sudden you have a great idea for a poem. As you rinse the spoons you work it out: the flow and the syntax. And by the time you hang up the towel it is almost written in your head but by the time you pick up pad and pencil it is almost gone.

Clever and faithless are these muses.

Answer 2

Hello Laurel,

I fully get what your saying--especially right now. I go often between abundance to barren dry places. I find that when I'm busy, tired and can't reflect on life my ability to write shuts off. I reread things I wrote even weeks ago and can't believe that I wrote them. I feel entirely uninspired.

I try to get rest. I start listening to music and begin free writing for that one line or that one phrase that might turn into something. But most of all, I refuse to believe the lie that I will never be creative again, and that everything I write will be garbage--writer's block is mostly a mental game.

Answer 3

Empty your mind, then look around, focus on the first thing you see, or the first thought through your head.
Let's call this one

Amusing the Muse

You think you have the poets curse,
That called a writer's block.
You wrack your brain and try to think,
Your head feels like a rock.

No matter how you try to find,
The words with which to write.
They still elude your supple mind,
To put down, black on white.

So clear your head, try not to think,
Look in your inner self.
Soon you will find inside your head,
The words upon the shelf.

Then take them down and stack them up,
And shuffle them like cards.
Then spread them out to make a poem,
As sweet as were the Bard's.

Answer 4

I think the cure for writer's block is reading, and possibly travel. Reading "the greats" almost always inspires me.

I understand, though.....my muse if fickle as well.

Answer 5

i like being alive yet i think of many theists additionally do no longer prefer to die. I prefer to stay around for as long as i will a minimum of on an identical time as I even have good high quality of existence. i'm no longer probably fearful of it as in i'm getting upset and think of roughly how i bypass to die sometime, its in basic terms a form of issues. Like i'm no longer that enthused approximately growing to be previous yet no count if i decide to or no longer its area of existence and could ensue regardless. the warm button is to make the better of it. so a techniques as dying is going i do no longer think of as quickly as i'm lifeless it is going to complication me in any respect. i do no longer bear in mind being upset or worried earlier i became right here and that i think of dying stands out as the comparable. it could in basic terms complication me if I waste time right here obsessing related to the actuality sooner or later I isn't right here anymore that's something I have no administration over besides. So why do it?

Answer 6

Yes, seek inspiration from every possible source.
Movies, Books, Travel, Sightseeing, Friends, Nature, etc.
but try to look deeper at something totally new to you.

Answer 7

Poems aren't written.
Poems happen.
They come through the pen onto the page
But they do not belong to you.