Purple Words: With Or Without Prompts

With Or Without Prompts

There are times when even with prompts,

no ideas come forth to generate other ideas.

Even my usually dependable Bibliomancy fails

to call forth the Muse and help me with her breath.

I am somewhat bereft of inspiration today,

the poem struggles with its gestation and form.

Much like the books I seek to bring out of me,

it is mostly aggravation, not inspiration which gets

the words out of my head and onto the blank page.

The research I do is both necessary and ultimately

unimportant to the stories since it doesn’t occur

in the everyday world at all: what need for veracity?

Yet, I feel there should be enough reality to anchor

things to some sort of consensual objectivity.

Often I’d glance at the time and make feeble

resolutions about when I would stop reading this

and start in on the research, which, of course

was vaguely elsewhere and else-when.

---Purple Mark 070912

Purple Prompts:                                                                         

1. “Often I’d glance at my watch and make feeble resolutions about when I’d stop reading this filth and start in on the research; which, of course, was vaguely elsewhere.” Robert Twigger. The Extinction Club. (William Morrow, 2001) Page 139.