-It would seem, I've run out of words.
Nothing left to say.
I have lost my inner voice.
It's gone, completely astray.
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smoky, i'm very glad you had the epiphany a couple months later and not never. very enjoyable. thanks. bri p.s. i think epiphany is the correct word. i only read the last poem on your list but i'll add you to my mypoetlist and maybe look at more later.
So glad you found your words again Smoky, it would never be the same without you and poems like this.
Nobody who can flow words with this ease should ever stop writing. (whispering a charm against writer's block for you now) peace, Patti
I couldn't pass up on the title of this one, smoky. my favorite haiku poet issa wrote thousands of poems, many of them bad, according to robert hass, author of the essential haiku. this encourages me, gives me the freedom to write less-than masterpieces. my experience is I just have to wait; I can't force it. you might find interesting my poem semi-retired in early spring—a poem which on this rare occasion came on a day I thought a poem should be written. -glen