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Strangling My Muse 
SANDBOX CHALLENGE #3: WRITE ABOUT WRITING:
Write a haiku about writing, your creative process, your characters, plots or anything else having to do with creativity.
My example:
writer’s block
characters arrived
fingers dance on my keyboard
now my mind is blank
Read more about this challenge here.
HAIKU BY KABLOOEY:
What I did yesterday instead of writing:
Bought a blogging book
because books let me postpone
the actual work.
I love the ellipsis…
Now I’m catching up
with my lovely bloggy friends,
but still not posting…
Because We had to Write an Original Poem or Composition for Mrs. Razar:
I used to write haiku
in the fourth grade every week.
To get my check plus.
Abusing, not amusing
Sandy, make me stop
Or I’ll do this all night long
Abusing my muse
Right?
I can’t seem to stop
but I have so much to do…
then again, this counts
I absolutely LOVED this. Great job. Especially this line ABUSING, not AMUSING. Perfect.
I agree–Kablooey did a great job with the individual haikus and also in tying them together into a narrative with a theme!
~Sandy
Thanks for reminding me about this, Sandy, and esp. for telling me that someone liked it. My, that’s always exciting to hear.
I don’t know how to write Haiku but I do remember learning it in school years ago. Wouldn’t mind giving it a go again….
Always happy to pass on compliments, Kablooey!
And Jenine, you should go for it. Five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. Easy peasy, as we used to say in school years ago…
~Sandy
Thank you! I love this site, am so glad I found it. It’s personal, and helpful and perfect for me right now. I appreciate your quick and positive responses all the time. Okay, here I go…am going to give it a go with the Haiku. Will post it later…hopefully!
God bless!
Oh, and yes, I forgot to mention that i KNOW this is not a Haiku. I tried and gave up. Just ended up writing a poem about my son…
Hi, it’s me again. Well, I suffered through my Haiku. I wanted to write about my son, Johnathon who just graduated high school this past June 26th. But it proved too difficult and emotional to write a Haiku about. Normally I am a big fiction writer and poetry does NOT come easy to me. As a matter of fact, the last time I wrote any was about four years ago. So I am definitely out of my comfort zone. I just wrote about my first born and the stages of his life and how I know he is off for college soon. My heart just aches to see him leave. He was accepted at Emerson College in Boston. We live on Long Island, New York. So I won’t see him that much anymore. Anyway, enough rambling. As nervous as I am, I feel I should share this poem. I have to start writing again. Maybe by the time my other son, the 16 year old graduates high school, I’ll have written a few more poems and not be so rusty.
So here it is:
My Beautiful First Born
Frayed blue blanket
Winnie the pooh
Brotherly fights
Mom’s kisses goodnight
Internet surfing
Techno dance music
Growing pains
Computer games
Comedy and drama
Clips with your camera
College and successes
You’re a talented blessing
Upward and onward
I know you must go
Goodbye for now,
My beautiful first born
Jenine Boisits
July 2010
Jenine,
Thanks for your comments about this blog. It puts a smile on my face and keeps me inspired to continue attempting to inspire others when I hear that kind of feedback!
Thanks also for sharing your work. I think it’s great that you tried the haiku (how else would you know if it worked for you or not?). And I love your poem! I like how each stanza reflects a period in your son’s life (and yours), and how you’ve shown the progression from the beginning of his life to today. Well done!
~Sandy
Thanks for the comments! I like that you pointed out what you liked about it, it doesn’t help much when people just say, “it was good” So thank you for that!
I haven’t had a chance to really look through the site as much as I’d like. Are there places where one can post their fiction? Or how does that work here?
I used to publish a literary print journal called Beginnings (1999-2007) that also sold in stores for about four years. I really missed editing that magazine. It had a unique mission statement in that we only published novice or minimally published writers. I had to stop publishing due to personal and financial struggles back then. In a way it might have been a blessing because now I can focus on my own writing again.
Thanks again for such a great site. I really need the feedback and the inspiration to write again. There are so many wonderful challenges and prompts here. I’ve already sent your link to a few of my friends.
Beginnings sounds like a great journal. But I’m glad you have more time to focus on your own writing now!
As for posting your work here, you can post anything you want in any of the categories in the Reader’s Sandbox. Just put it wherever you thinks it fits — I’m not really uptight about where things go.
I generally comment on things people post, but I don’t give workshop-type feedback or critique. Any other reader can also comment on your work if they like, though that’s not typical here.
If you’re looking for serious feedback from multiple people, you won’t find that here. On the other hand, I love it when people share their work, and encourage you to post anything you would like others to read.
~Sandy
One more note — I make this clear in the copyright notice on this site, but just to reiterate it, you retain the rights to anything you post here.
My other son just left home right after he graduated high school to live with his dad. We are on good terms but he left to move forward with what he wants to do with his life. He is a musician. I miss him and can’t believe both my sons are off on their own now. Here’s the poem for him….
Empty Room
Haunting chords
insistent, clear
they float down stairs…
I keep gazing up
expecting to see you there
Determination, strong will
so unfazed by tears
the music keeps playing
comforting, challenging
through the toughest of years
and so now,
I remain
in the shadows of your life
unheard but still here
I miss you
but know
it’s time for you to go
So
in reverence I remain
your biggest fan
in reverence of you,
who,
overnight
has become a man.
This is beautiful, Jenine! So haunting, and I can feel your emotions about your son’s leaving — the intertwining strands of being both sad and proud of him. I love that you wrote a poem for each of your sons as they left home. How lovely. Thanks for sharing it here.
~Sandy
SANDBOX CHALLENGE #17: CREATE A POEM OF ELIMINATION:
Rip out a page from a magazine or newspaper and block out the words you don’t need to create a new poem.
To see my example and read more about this challenge, click here.
If you’d like to share, post your creations below!
I like this sandbox section! Your tips on creativity are wonderful:
Marveling the day
open eyes meeting sunrise
very first haiku
Thanks — I’m glad you came to play in the sandbox!
This is a lovely haiku. Thanks so much for sharing it here!
~Sandy