A Poem is Born

The ink dried long ago,
Pages left blank,
Thoughts buried
deep under,
Heart aches,
The pain festers,
Silently drips the blood,
Slowly becomes
A torrent.

The world turns,
and somewhere,
exuberant keystrokes dance
a rhythmic dance,
words flow across a screen,
unknown, unloved,
A poem is born.

Author: pranabaxom

Poetry is my passion. I am not a methodical writer. I have no set topics to write about. What I feel, perceive, think about, I will like to share in this blog. I open my mind to the world. Like the weather, sometimes my poems are cloudy, sometimes stormy. I always like to see sunshine streaming through the leaves of trees, so I hope I can share some of those sunshine with my readers. View all posts by pranabaxom

12 thoughts on “A Poem is Born”

yassy says:

March 26, 2021 at 12:19 pm

Beautifully penned!!
Can’t for the world of me missed this. Love the way you began and the verse flows effortlessly.. faultless lines poignant and perfect.

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1. pranabaxom says:
  
  March 26, 2021 at 12:21 pm
  
  Thank you so much for the beautiful words. I wrote the poem and was about to post in my FB story when I saw your haiku in WP. So added those lines in my comment to your haiku.
  
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  1. yassy says:
    
    March 26, 2021 at 12:28 pm
    
    You are welcome, Pranab.
    More ink to your quill. Your verse has a lot of soul .. soulful and enigmatic.
    A safe weekend to you.
    
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  2. pranabaxom says:
    
    March 26, 2021 at 12:30 pm
    
    Thank you so much.
    Really appreciate.
    Enjoy your weekend.
    
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MOMENTS says:

April 3, 2021 at 1:27 pm

I really like this one, my favorite. By the way, how do create stanzas on wordpress? Or separate paragraphs? I recently posted a poem but I cannot divide it into the original stanzas.

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1. pranabaxom says:
  
  April 3, 2021 at 2:01 pm
  
  Long time no see Marta. Hope everything is going great with you.
  
  Once WP forced the Gutenberg block editor, I stopped writing in WP directly. Instead I write in Google doc and the copy paste in WP and while pasting paste as plain text. That way every stanza gets copied into separate blocks. Then if required I edit individual blocks. Not an elegant way of doing it but works for me. Let me know if this works for you.
  
  Thanks for your comment.
  
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  1. MOMENTS says:
    
    April 3, 2021 at 2:07 pm
    
    You are welcome. I am fine, just been too busy to be on WP. I edited my poem using Microsoft Word, the most commonly used program, and then did copy and paste into separate blocks like you. WP seemed to respect the stanzas, but I logged out and when I checked out the poem the form got lost.
    
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  2. pranabaxom says:
    
    April 3, 2021 at 2:25 pm
    
    Many are not happy with the new block editor in WP. Not intuitive.
    
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  3. MOMENTS says:
    
    April 4, 2021 at 5:45 am
    
    Yes, that’s exactly the problem. It was much easier before.
    
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  4. MOMENTS says:
    
    April 3, 2021 at 2:08 pm
    
    Perhaps I should use Google doc like you and hope the copy paste will keep the separate blocks.
    
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  5. pranabaxom says:
    
    April 3, 2021 at 2:23 pm
    
    Try it and see.
    Just ensure that inside the block when you paste, click on paste as plain text. Otherwise everything will be pasted in one block.
    
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  6. MOMENTS says:
    
    April 4, 2021 at 5:44 am
    
    Thank you!
    
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