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# Writer's Block
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/writers-block/
- Published: 2022-01-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: head feels like an empty vessel echoes heckle off the walls stale ideas squirm and wrestle to gain entry to its halls
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

head feels like an empty vessel  
echoes heckle off the walls  
stale ideas squirm and wrestle  
to gain entry to its halls

slowly, but the barrier weakens  
its light, absent any beacons  
permeates, its reddish glow  
standing pat against the flow

suddenly I feel it brighten  
an idea does break through  
an Olympian, a Titan!  
...ugh, get back into the queue

is there nothing fresher pending  
where one doesn't know the ending  
an emotion yet untouched  
saying little, but so much

hopeless is the task, I gather  
well, at least there's no spilled ink  
but there's nothing I would rather  
(even if it turns to blather)  
I shall sit here, and I'll think