[Critique Group 2] poem for July 25 critique session, 205 words

[Alice Massa]

*Creative Cabin in the Concrete Wood*

poem by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

Company-imposed hiatus

from my writing world--

from my creative cabin in the Concrete Wood.

Dreamless days drift by

as the staycation continues

in the creativeless morass.

First commandment of writers:

Thou shall not blame company

for lack of creativity

nor for absence of creative activity.

Company leaves!

Complaints--be gone!

Compliances and compromises--no more.

Come, Muses, come to my

Computerland!

Come, come--welcome

components of creativity.

Roll up that red carpet!

Roll up that rolltop desk.

Roll out the creativity dough;

form into a pliable ball.

Then, kneed, kneed, kneed.

Brush the dough with olive oil,

and let rise, gloriously rise.

Rise by the hearth

of my creative cabin in the Concrete Wood.

Rise, and fill the cabin

with that magical and unforgettable fragrance

of creative growth.

A-a-ah, I am back home;

I peacefully sip

the slender, fluted glass of solitude.

My plume dips

into the inkwell of "all-is-well" once more.

In the wicker rocker beside the hearth,

I take the risen dough from the bowl

and resume my gifted work

as I now nestle

into my creative cabin in the Concrete Wood,

with gratefully only a Black Labrador at my artistic side.

July 18, 2019, Thursday


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