brittle light
brittle light
Nov 10, 2010

Heavy Handed Pennings

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I can feel my grip on the quill
squeezing it out

thick heavy lines
shoved to and fro
splashing words
...splotches of words
...spilt over other words
piling deep

jiggling over miniscule pauses
...dripping
...leaking
then another spew of
blackened spittle
even before the point of it all
trickles into awarness

my twiddled tool
...between bowed calloused fingers
drools anxiously for the next bitter morsel
of grimey burnt ash
to slam down on any empty space
...to endarken all
...as completely as death
before running dry

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: upstate New York USA, USA

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Comments

Rett

Rett

14 years 5 months ago

Well written. I think all of us feel this way at one time or another. Many poems have been written about the pangs and the agonies poets/writer go through along with my own. It always amazes me how many differing way we can express it. Well done.