No Flow By David Allen I wonder If the reason My fountain pen Fails to write An impressive Bold black line Is the same As my current Writer's block. The ink, Like the words, Just refuses To flow.
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My New Pen
Posted: December 28, 2019 in PoetryTags: ballpoint, fountain pen, pen, poem, poetry, present, writing
MY NEW PEN
By David Allen
Is there a difference
between writing a poem
with a fountain pen
instead of a ballpoint?
Will the words
be more polished?
More elegant?
Or will I have to
shake it up more
to get the lines to flow?
The pen demanding
more ink, like opening a vein?
Is a ballpoint pen
simply more mundane?
If so, what about poems
born from platens
or electronic bytes?
Are they too mechanical?
Too removed from emotion?
I wonder as I write.
A WRITER AFRAID OF HIS PEN
Posted: November 2, 2014 in PoetryTags: David Allen, fear, insecurity, neuroptioc, pen, poetry, writer's block, writing
A WRITER AFRAID OF HIS PEN
By David Allen
Look at him sitting there
contemplating rhyme,
stretching the time, feeling
there’s another change
left in his repertoire of life.
He doesn’t realize the fears
which force the doubt upon
his tortured mind, again
and again, making him
abandon plotted paths
for the impulse trail,
dropping the pen in favor
of reading a book,
raiding the fridge,
or going for a long drive,
is insecurity, a shadowy
stranger who seeks to make
new friends with the neurotic
at the short end of the stick.
He calls it writer’s block,
but who is he trying to fool?
He is afraid of the one tool,
the one gift, which could
make it all worthwhile,
choosing, instead, to run away
never testing the tool to
see if it works.
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