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Poet's Lament

Poet’s Lament

Untitled document
a blank page
emptiness awaiting subject
a pristine monument
silent stage
a play with no first act bedecked.

Here’s to the uninspired
the blank mind
so vast in vacant thought
without a notion fired
bard gone blind
all sparks have flown, all battles fought.

This then my heartless foe
write or die
so goes his cruel insistence clear
though streams of nothing flow
(hear me cry)
it’s of nothing I write, I fear.


Line count: 18
Form: Tri-fall
For Promptly Poetry Challenge, Week 17
Prompt: Tri-fall, consisting of three 6-line stanzas, for a total of 18 lines. The rhyme scheme is a,b,c,/a,b,c, and the syllable count for each stanza is as follows: 6/3/8, 6/3/8. This form requires little to no punctuation and can be written on any subject matter.