My Muse is Getting Fussy

by Don Matthews

Tuesday 27th August 2019 8:51 am

My Muse is Getting Fussy

Thalia: My Muse of Mirth

I'm sitting in Hillbillys

Wondering what to write

I need ideas sweet Thalia

My page is blank, all white

When I did ID her

Thalia (now with name)

Insisted Muse be capitalised

(Can you, or I, she blame?)

Would low-case 'poet' please me?

No way, 'Poet' I am

Don't put me in your faceless crowd

I'm Poet Don – type slam

Well golly gosh! My white page

Is no longer white

It's filled with Music ramblings

By Poet Don (in flight)

Don Matthews August 2019

Comments

Don Matthews

Wed 28th Aug 2019 08:25

Thankyou Adam. And for elevating me to upper-case P. When my peers address me as upper not lower I feel I am beginning to succeed in my rhymic hill climb.

You did well at rhyming. A gold star for that ?

Adam Rabinowitz

Wed 28th Aug 2019 05:38

It is now clear to me
what before was mystery
Thalia your muse has gone awry
Leaving you poemless
high and dry

No matter how much you want her back
to bring you the words you now do lack
her fussiness has swept her away
leaving you joyless this poemless day

So Poet Don...upper case P
It is very clear to see
That to find your muse
Don't blow your fuse

Do what I do when mine leaves me
leaves me crumpled on bended knee
tell jokes and this is no ruse
cause then you will amuse your muse

she will come back swift as light
and help you rhyme as you write
to comfort you throughout the night
composing poems on pages white

Don Matthews

Tue 27th Aug 2019 16:16

You're jolly right Jennifer. You or I would not want to be plain old jennifer and don would we? Hey? Why are you jennifer Malden and not Jennifer Malden?

Miss Muse Thalia is also a bit puzzled at this also?

Don Matthews

Tue 27th Aug 2019 16:09

I like your Musing on a Muse Kate.

I have just been told the Golden Rule of maintaining a healthy muse relationship.

Rule 4: Never ever, not once, consummate your relationship with your muse

Thalia often tempts me Kate but you will be pleased to know I say no blossom each time. She keeps coming back for more, little vixen, but I gotta be careful not bite the hand which feeds me. Am I doing the right thing Kate?....

jennifer Malden

Tue 27th Aug 2019 15:54

Nice Don! Of course she's getting uppity/fussy if you don't concede her a capital letter. She did come up with something though.

Jennifer

<Deleted User> (22444)

Tue 27th Aug 2019 11:20

While we are on the subject of muses, I thought you might appreciate this old one I dragged up from my files Don.

Musings on a Muse

He was her muse,
a flint to her imagination.
She hung on every word, not in adoration but because he challenged her at every turn.
There was no convention in their interaction - no "relationship" of which to speak.
But his mind pulled her inward,
his very presence igniting creativity from somewhere deep within.
Was this better than love?
More satisfying than sex?
She would never know.
The only thing she knew for sure was that he helped her see the world a different way.
And she was better for it.

Don Matthews

Tue 27th Aug 2019 08:53

Thalia has told me
To all WOLers tell
Who in our relationship
Holds and rings the bell

Good fella......

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