This is hard; as I was waking up I had a whole statement in my head, perfectly worded, for this blog post. Knowing myself, I should have immediately sat up, found a pen, and took to paper. This is part of my writing problem these days, I cease to remember incredible lines or paragraphs that were floating through my mind only moments before. After having the babe, and even while pregnant, I feel as though the writer in me has been locked away in some cell and I cannot for the life of me find the key. Over the year I have, in my opinion, written some hauntingly, beautiful poems; since becoming pregnant my muse, or well, or whatever it may be, has been slowly drying up. It's enough to even try to keep this blog up-to-date; but, I am forcing myself, so I do not lose that creative, unique, passionate part of me. I look back on some of these blogs and think how banal. All they are is a rehashing of my day, with maybe one lyrical embellishment that appears out of nowhere and seems out of place, lame, and reaching. I am screaming on the inside for the poet to return. I have, maybe, written 4-5 poems since the birth of our baby, when in the past it would take less than an hour to grab hold of the words and spill them across a crisp, white page. What is wrong with me? Is it lack of time, is it pregnancy or motherhood brain, or have I lost the spark? I am terrified it is the last and I will never find that piece of me again. I will never again feel the current run through me, from heart to fingertips, as some emotional prose or poetry spreads out in black behind the flowing curve of the ballpoint pen. Am I lost? This is the last poem I wrote, around May of this year, and it was rejected (along with three others) by Poetry Magazine: A Hollow Space Left Those broken eyes Sad, lonely light to live with Candle wicks now fading Heart stolen with the evening wind A broken plate rests on the dark walnut floors Shattered pieces, disconnected memories An empty seat, impression in the cushion of something that should have lasted longer than a spark. A dangerous silence Calloused hands wrap around empty promises Cold food that would have been Could have been a beginning mid-book Tabletop filled with nothingness, desolate with tattered chords of maybes, then with a hollow aching goodbye. Longer than the slow motion swaying of a walk to and out the door. The click the only sound left, deafening Deafening...deafening…deafening I am tired of being helpless. I am going to send out a short story to a writing magazine in our area, and a children's book to a possible publisher. Wish me luck that my fickle muse will once again sit within the hollow, between my shoulder and my neck, to whisper sweet nothings until I spill them from my hands.
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Carol Templeton
18/7/2013 06:05:15 am
No way have you lost your spark, your passion, or your talent. You are simply a new Mom with limited sleep and a brain full of baby's wants and needs. You haven't had the luxury to have "you" time since before you were pregnant and ofcourse, you wouldn't have it any other way. But I guarantee the more independant babe becomes, the more that hidden creative & unique side of you will return. And you are right to keep blogging, it is never lame!!
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Tegan
18/7/2013 06:32:32 am
Thanks so much, I am working at keeping it going :D Just feel like I am missing myself right now...although, I LOVE every minute with the little one, so I am not really missing out on anything on that front <3
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Cheryl
18/7/2013 11:19:51 am
Agree with Aunt Carol and keep on writing and sharing your talent!
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