Poem: I Should Like To Write

Vacation is over. Holiday is spent. Back to work. I gotta pay rent. :)

Poem: I Should Like To Write
By Dave “Doc” Rogers
© 20090322
 

I should like to write

 

‘Tis a proper English thing to say

 

I should like to write
 

A whimsical fancy, a childish foray

 

I awake from dreams of stories grand

Of adventures and quests, might of hand

Of perils and dangers, a hero’s stand

Pushing off bed my feet to floor land

 

I stumble to shower; heat, soap, wake

Dreams on hold, this the road I take

The office, the people, my heart ache

Reality hit, no time to make

 

The creative, delayed one more time

Swirling within, thought in mystic rhyme

Stories worth telling; to not, a crime

Dearest held at bay; pain felt, sublime

 

Money to be had, work is required

Labor in exchange, skill to be hired

Time given in compulsion now mired

Boards, the meets, the endless task list sired

 

To sit and retell stories well done

From rising to falling, the day’s sun

The pen and paper, my companion

Alone with my thoughts, working day won

 

I should like to write

 

‘Tis a proper English thing to say

 

I should like to write

A whimsical fancy, a life’s foray

 

Author's Note

Enjoy and commisserate in my wish.

Reviews

[Cherry Berry]

I always have a creative surge in the middle of working when I do not have the time to stop and at least write the thought down. By the time I can, I can't remember for the life of me what it was.... That is my luck. lol This was a fun and enjoyable piece. The flow in this poem is amazing. I enjoyed reading this piece. Well penned.
xox
Cherri

[Babbette Francis]

Wow! That was nice and refreshing. Thank you : )

[Teresa Bridges]

Awwww, to have to make money! :-) My best ideas always came at work though (old job, I don't work there any longer) and you captured quite well how it feels to have to sit through corporate America for 40 hrs a week! Good job!