Anxiety

My poem
won’t do
what I 
want it to.

I chew my 
pen, my
nails, my
lip

and resort
to the key-
board.
No change.

Words seem
to have 
lives
of their own.

They’re off
to have
adventures,
without me,

they don’t
care
about 
poetry.

Yet,
they’ve
guided me
here,

to a 
wordingfount,
where poems
are found.

Kim M. Russell, 21st April 2023

Image: collaboration with Ave Calvar on Unsplash

It’s day twenty-one and three weeks into NaPoWriMo, and the optional prompt gives us another poem to read, Sarah Gambito’s ‘Grace’ and a choice of an abstract noun from a list to use as the title for a poem that contains very short lines, and at least one invented word.

62 thoughts on “Anxiety”

  9. I really enjoyed this poem Kim and can definitely relate to the following lines: 👇👇👍👍👌👌

    “Words seem
    to have
    lives
    of their own.

    They’re off
    to have
    adventures,
    without me,”

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  24. I enjoyed this prompt on that day, too, and love your invented word. The short lines work so very well for that feeling of anxiety that comes from not being able to write.

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  26. Hi Kim,

    I am doing a series of blogs this week on anxiety. May I please have your permission to cite this poem with full credits link to your blog. It will fit in beautifully with what I am writing ✍🏾 on this platform and a wider audience.

    Warm regards

    Ryan

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