555 Days... The Continuation

Welcome to 555 Days as a Poet by The Crafty Scribe

Back in 2010, I challenged myself to write a poem or a short verse a day, and post it to a blog. 555 Days as a Poet by The Crafty Scribe is the continuation of the experiment.

I gave myself 18 months to recover from the original daily blog postings, and now, I am ready to start it all over again. Although as I was beginning in the middle of the year, I thought 6 months was too short a time after my last experience.

"If I could complete a year of poems, how about 18 months?" I thought. I worked out that would be 549 days. I could have rounded it up to 550 to included New Years Day 2014, but then I thought I'd go 5 better... to 555 days.

Why 555? According to many spiritual teachers, the number 555 is a sign of change and the flow of energy. I thought it related to the blog. I spent a year writing a poem every day, then rested for 18 months. Now the tide has turned. It's time to begin the flow of words in my life again.

I'm not a trained poet, just an enthusiastic scribe wanting to create something new each day. I don't truly know my stanza from my meter, but I hope to improve and get my poetic license someday! Expect the weird, the strange and the inner workings of the Crafty Scribe's mind. Let's ride the waves once more.

Please pass on the blog address to all your verse and lyrical loving friends. I hope you will join me, and read my daily scribbling.

Tuesday 25 June 2013

"From the Waterfall of Words" (Entry 342)

There's a waterfall of words 
hidden,
deep within a land of plentiful stories. 
Kept in the box with a secret door,
in the lavender scented drawer
of the old lady in the corner house
who owns the nine cats. 
At night, these moggies
take flight, to turn into bats,
carrying Cups of Inspiration
dipped into the Babbling Book Brook,
Loquacious Library Lake and the Word Unheard Waterfall.
Once filled to trill and thrill,
the bountiful bowls of talent are
tied by silver slivers of a shivering idea.  
Flap your nocturnal wings, you mewing muses,
then blow imagination across the world, 
through golden hope hoops make thought bubbles. 
Creativity began. You know, you can!
They stirred and purred. A miaow - Do it now!
All from a waterfall of words 
hidden
in the box with a secret door.

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