Some things are never easy

October 29, 2008 · Posted in Poetry · Comment 

Gone

I wake up with a start… my poem is gone

I grapple with under-blankets

Shake the spring bed

Sounds of strained wires

Irritate my half-slumbered mind

I search for a word

A title to begin with

I search for a rhyme

That like a drum beat

Spread its echoes in my dream

The sheets reek of broken dreams

Scattered from the pillows to my toes Read more