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Subject: WRITER'S BLOCK
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A LITERARY CRISIS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is nothing so hollow as pens
Last Line: To the mouth that isn't there.
Subject(s): Writer's Block


A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Near no name, colorado
Last Line: I knew I'd lost it.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes


AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT, by MARIA ABDY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Does the press wait for copy? I shrink from the task
Last Line: With that capital prize—an original thought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Thought; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Thinking


CHALLENGES, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: More challenging than an empty page
Last Line: Is a woman's body full of rage.
Subject(s): Anger; Women; Writer's Block


CHARMS AGAINST WRITER'S BLOCK, by DAVID CITINO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Make a novena, a devotion to the gritty wanderlust
Last Line: Get by you. Write it down. Again and again
Subject(s): Writer's Block


COVERING TWO YEARS, by WELDON KEES    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This nothingness that feeds upon itself
Last Line: Shaken by knowledge of recurrence and return
Subject(s): Writer's Block


JUST DESSERT, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When rilke's writer's block
Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Writer's Block


NOVICE, by JULIA FIELD BROWN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The arms of the elm
Last Line: In silver arabesque.
Subject(s): Writer's Block


POEM - UNFINISHED POEM, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a way to spend the golden years, tomasito
Last Line: To hell with that word, tomasito! Let's go out in the sun!
Subject(s): Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Sons; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers


PUSH-MOWER, by DAN STRYK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell my neighbor, his
Last Line: Cure I know for %'writer's block.' %the muscles %blent, as whitman %mused, with the heady %flow of g
Subject(s): Writer's Block


RELEASE, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Went to a shrink about his writer's block and the shrink
Subject(s): Psychiatry; Writer's Block


SPIRIT, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A spirit moves me as I write,
Last Line: Who's the fool who needs you most?
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Muses; Writer's Block; Writing And Writers


THE POET PERPLEXT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Brain! You must work! Begin, or we shall lose
Last Line: So gentle brain! I thank you and conclude.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Reason; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE POET'S DELAY, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In vain I see the morning rise
Last Line: No woods still echoing to my lay?
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Writer's Block


THE UNWILLING MUSE, by GUY WETMORE CARRYL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, nothing in all life worse is
Last Line: And the editor's waiting outside.
Subject(s): Writer's Block


WRITER'S BLOCK, by MARTIN BELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: A jewelled piece of furniture of hell
Subject(s): Writer's Block


WRITER'S BLOCK, by KATHLEEN FOX    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the morning you find you are
Subject(s): Writer's Block


WRITER'S BLOCK, by B. Z. NIDITCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Among sunless times
Last Line: I watch the large evergreen %socketed by rain %wondering if it's all %about reflection
Subject(s): Writer's Block


WRITER'S BLOCK, by JANET SNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Elbow glued to table
Last Line: A landslide of puzzle pieces %lock into a narrative
Subject(s): Writer's Block