At My Best

10:42...Sat. Night..alone(by choice)...just watched "Sid & Nancy"..felt like writing..fifty seconds later......this..so, yeah..it's kind of raw. I think you miss something when you cook it too much.

   The best writing occurs

               when

       you can get the

words to dance effortlessly

       across the page,

      

         when the words

appear before your pen-strokes

   etch them onto the page

                 and

           out of time

         outside of time

        outside of rhyme

     no oscillating scheme

        no scheme at all.

 

               Formless

     from the void of nothing

                   and

i   n   t  o   t  h  e   w  o  r  l  d

                  thrust

                bursting

                 forever.

 

That is when writing is at its best

                 for me.

Author's Note

This was the quickest poem I've written...the layout was tricky and I don't think I've ever even attempted a "layout" before...It just seemed "right" at the time.

Reviews

[Lee E. Powell]

Ah cool, and yeah you are absolutly right

[Rachel DeHart]

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I like this one a lot. And the layout is great.

[Dizzy-Izzy]

Seems right to me Mr. Mike... That's how some of the best stuff comes about ... it just flows.

[Katrina]

i love it. yep. i do. i'm actually really hardpressed to find very structured poetry that i like -- especially if it rhymes. so the whole point of this poem i could totally relate to. besides that, it was wonderfully written like everything you write, so no surprise there.

you're a goldmine.

xxx