The Writers Block



A writers greatest fear:
Harder to climb then the highest mountain,
able to withstand the brightest star,
a bite nobody can chew,
yet cannot be seen from afar...
but once a fellow writer
looks the other way,
The Writers Block is gone...

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Every writer experiences a lack of inspiration every once and a while; this poem expresses those feelings.

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Written on May 17, 2023

Submitted by bcorratti on May 17, 2023

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Scheme ABCDCEFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 237
Words 49
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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