CONFLICTING CURRENTS

This poem wrote itself very quickly. I've no idea where it came from. Sometimes poems spring forth from the subconscious almost complete.
I've reworked it a number of times, but it was essentially whole when it arrived.

Realisation

Imagine the blank page as a quagmire.

Conflicting currents of quick sand

lie beneath the smooth white surface,

over which you must lay word after word.
The right ones for this poem will snap into place.

There is a temporary refuge in such words

[and let's face it you do like order,

the comfort of a sheaf of sorted poems,

firm in your hand when you stand to read],

not this pit of snake letters,

that writhes in your cupped hands.

And has led you into this swamp.

Whatever. You are here now,

so wizard word your way to solid ground.

Writing about the act of creation is nothing new, though every time we create it is different. I suppose it's like that old saying that you can never walk into the same river twice.
Thanks to Paul Mortimer for his constructive feedback in putting on a final sheen.
Here's The Nits from a long time ago.

Until next time.