Writer's Block

    Poems spin inside my head,
    here they are - now they're dead
    why, oh why can I not find
    the way to make words rhyme?

    What's wrong with me that I can't hear
    that sweet, sweet music in my ear?
    like going in circles, round and round
    why can't the end be found?

    This legend I made will not end
    it will not break or twist or bend
    creating a monster I cannot kill
    murder is against my will

    Butterflies fluttering here and there
    like finding a poem, where, oh where?
    no matter how far I go in flight
    I still can't find anything to write.


    Terri Hope Waters

    March 1997

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