Stop me if you’ve heard this one

Creativity, poem 1 Minute

It happened again —
a little bit of flotsam,
perhaps the start of a poem
or a little prose poem
or just a thought
that struck my fancy

and I even
had my journal and pen
sitting
next to my bed.

All I had to do
was turn on the light,
jot it down,
and go back to trying
to sleep.

Instead,
I lay in the dark
repeating the flotsam
to myself,
fell asleep,
and woke up without it.

Published by WarrenBluhm

Warren Bluhm is an award-winning community journalist, twice winner of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s prestigious Robert T. Wright Memorial Award as the best local columnist in the state. His voice was heard in thousands of radio newscasts from Green Bay to Ripon for 22 years, and his words were featured in thousands of newspaper editions for more than a quarter-century after that. He has had a digital presence since 2005 with blog posts he has collected in 10 books to date, and he has seven additional works and collections of his fiction.

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One thought on “Stop me if you’ve heard this one”

  1. ain’t that more often the case….and nice write/read…and why you don’t have a bevy of followers here is beyond my comprehension…
    regards

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