Writing Without Inspiration

Today I thought words would flow

freely, brilliantly, abundantly,

but I scratched and clawed

the paper with nouns, verbs,

adjectives, punctuation,

and all I could accomplish

were senseless phrases

wandering around the clock

eating up minutes I couldn’t reclaim

or write into rewind the moment

I jumped in with effort

instead of waiting for inspiration.

©Susie Clevenger 2013