Writer's Block

[HopperWolf]

Words form in disjointed union;

Bound by no law,

I can observe this casual confusion

Through Mind’s window.

 

Words and ideas dance freely,

Creating music,

Images beat and sing for me to see

On the mist’s edge.

 

Slipping further while I look in,

To be replaced,

Within a lifeless, silent, flat lined nothing,

And ideas lost.

 

Broken silence, searching vainly,

The mist has past,

Giving fire and taking back, leaving me:

Extinguished flame.

 

 

 

 

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[HopperWolf]

(Conversion confusion, this is actually the third post in this thread)

 

 

 

well, I capitalise Mind to give my mind it's own personality and imply that it is an entity on its own, acting out of my control. The window is merely a property or possesion of that mind, or me. It is something I use to look in on the Mind, but it is not, in itself, an entity.

[SoaringIcarus]

(Conversion confusion, this is actually the second post in this thread)

 

 

 

I can really appreciate the metaphor of fog with writer's block. I like 'casual confusion' and wonder, why is 'Mind's' capitalized but not 'window'? If I considered "Mind" to be as important as, say, God, then perhaps... But if I were talking about God's Sandals, I think I would capitalize Sandals, as well. Or perhaps that's my taste for capitalized nouns. Nice, nonetheless.