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Running away to find oneself

As I shared with runningwolf04 I was fascinated by foreign places as a child. Couldn't go anywhere! But I decided to run away to Kansas for school and then I went to Costa Rica (which was an emotional disaster I wasn't prepared for). That stopped my travels ... well that and poverty. Still, I learned something from living in small towns in the Cornbelt, from staying with friends in Canada, from living on my own in the city, from moving on-purpose to a Black inner-city neighborhood, from running away again (hello rural Oklahoma!), from being homeless and finally from moving in 2008 to a college town in Montana. It was NOT a smooth journey.

In 2009 I went back to Costa Rica, in 2011 England, 2012 Scandinavia, 2013 Europe, 2015 around the World, 2017 Taiwan...

What I'm saying, in a round about way, is that each step, no matter how frightening, full of hope or painful lead to my ability to take the next step. After all the years and tears I have a certain self-confidence that I was lacking growing up. It's taking a long time, like the Velveteen Rabbit, for me to become me.

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Space Blog  (ASR) Cruising WDC cyberspace and raiding ports for blog prompts! #2223838 by Sharmelle's Expressions

"To My Muse"  by Roari ∞

To mini-review: I really like this old piece. I give it a 4.0. To make it more poetic I'd suggest taking out a couple useless words, using 's instead of is, then reading out loud to correct the rhythm. Rhythm is especially important to this piece because rhyme is not and it already has a fairly good rhythm as I only stumbled in a couple places.

Thematically, it's a lament about a relationship. In this case Writer versus Muse. I'm amused by that because I've had this internal conversation (at least I 'thought' it was internal ).

Space blog: "The poem was about writer's block. That begs the question: What do you do for Writer's block?"

Put a pen to paper, fingers on the keypad. I don't get this 'writer's block' everyone seems to anguish over. If one way seems blocked I just take another route. I vomit on the page and clean up later. I'm a pantser... cleaning up later... or never. I do have wash clothes handy and spare underwear. I do not suffer from blockage.

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