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Friday, May 9, 2025

Amused

      Amused


The bards desire, a whiter shade of muse,

requires that deep depression be attained.

A genuinely somber tone, the blues,

must permeate the soul and be retained.

 

We’re better off, as poets, being sad ...

as lack of hope intensifies the senses.  

A muse will be obscure when one is glad ...

embrace your pain. Oh poet, build no fences!  


A weary writer soon divines the well

and draws his muse from willful deprivation

of sleep that he may conjure bliss or Hell

exhaustion is a path to inspiration.


Exhaustion's good, depression's better still ...

if you can manage both you're almost Will.T



~ Dean Neighbors ~




 



 



 

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