Still Waters
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It is overwhelming.
Thoughts and words whirl in my head desperate for release.
Churning like the sea in a hurricane.
No structure. No sense. No rhyme or reason.
The pressure building till pen and paper burst the dam.
A torrent of flimsy concepts, half thoughts,
and unrefined prose spew across the page.
Arrows and notations digging furrows for the flood of words.
Pushing and prodding them to pool together.
Watching as some spill and slosh past the barriers I hastily contrive.
The rush strong enough to make its own channels where it must.
When the flow subsides, I erect levy and dam
to hold and shape the areas now filled.
The waters still and the sediment of unnecessary words
and exhausted thoughts fall away.
The pool begins to clear and marry phrase with form.
Complete ideas sparkle across the surface as it calms.
I can sit back and enjoy a moment’s quiet in this space.
Till the scratch of pen again digs at the mortar of my mind
and the next deluge begins.
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commonsensiblyspeaking 
I’m envious that you can take those deluges of circuitous thought and transform them in the way that you do!
Thanks sis!
A very interesting poem…beautiful and powerfully meaningful. Very good work indeed.
Thank you, dear friend!
You’re welcome my friend!
the writer’s desire to write is ever powerful and hard to harness
You know this better than most. Thanks Beth!
You are clearly not exaggerating when you say thoughts and words are whirling in your head. Thanks for releasing and sharing them.
Thanks Geoff!
Like an engineer, somehow, you always pull it together and form beautiful and thoughtful pieces.
Thank you, Pete! I appreciate all your support!
A wonderful look inside the mind of a writer!
Thank you, Jim!
For the love of the craft! I don’t think a writer’s pen ever truly stops twitching.
That is likely true. Thanks Kristian. Hope you are well!
This is great Brad. I couldn’t explain that feeling but you just did. I have been there and their is no rhyme or reason for the desire to be so great, yet the thoughts I want to express elude me. Love this piece. ❤️🤗🦋Sending love and hugs, Jonikins
Thank you Jonikins!
My pleasure always Brad. Sending lots of love. ❤️❤️