Empty Bowl

Posted on July 27, 2011 | 20 Comments

Laying out the words from the creative void
Drawing everything out from voices destroyed
Digging deeper holes hollowing out the devoid
Trying to stay calm while being annoyed

http://poetryblogroll.blogspot.com/2011/07/poetry-pnatry-is-now-open-60.html?showComment=1312120651234#c8905594779771656523

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20 responses to “Empty Bowl”

Life: Between the lines | July 27, 2011 at 6:08 PM | Reply

hmmm a bit of frustration as well noted in the process, but I like the purge 🙂

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- booguloo | July 27, 2011 at 7:06 PM | Reply
  
  Don’t know what happened to my original response… but I found creative void out there as the new way of saying writer’s block…. Worked well in the poem I thought.
  
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Liliana Negoi | July 27, 2011 at 11:33 PM | Reply

you know what i find very interesting in this short poem? the frequency of the “oy” sound. and it gives me a feeling of a trampoline, as if first dipping my hearing into nothingness and then throwing it up-high into ether. very interesting effect!

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- booguloo | July 28, 2011 at 5:30 AM | Reply
  
  I could do some experimental poetry and put vey at the end of every line… big grin…
  
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Bodhirose | July 28, 2011 at 7:36 AM | Reply

Sorry your bowl ended up empty–but see, you can even write about that–not so empty after all.

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- booguloo | July 28, 2011 at 8:06 AM | Reply
  
  I seen this and thought about it before I wrote the poem,” Mold clay to form a bowl; It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful.” 11 chapter in the Tao.
  
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Bodhirose | July 28, 2011 at 8:18 AM | Reply

Very cool! I love the Tao–so very true. Thanks, Michael–for sharing that.

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- booguloo | July 28, 2011 at 8:32 AM | Reply
  
  I remembered where I read it.
  http://blogs.psychcentral.com/therapist-within/2011/07/healingthe-emptiness-within-therapy-life-lesson-learning/
  
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Bodhirose | July 28, 2011 at 8:50 AM | Reply

That’s an interesting site, Michael. I spent some time there looking around. Thanks!

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- booguloo | July 28, 2011 at 2:43 PM | Reply
  
  Gives me all kinds of ideas to write about.. oops my secret is out… smiles…
  
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Kerry O'Connor | July 31, 2011 at 9:36 AM | Reply

Yep… I have days like this – too many actually.

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- booguloo | July 31, 2011 at 11:43 AM | Reply
  
  I have to fight and write my way out. lol
  
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Heaven | July 31, 2011 at 2:42 PM | Reply

sometimes we just need to step back, and do something else….
in calling my muse to write, i just let it be… i have faith it will come…

happy sunday

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- booguloo | July 31, 2011 at 2:50 PM | Reply
  
  As we get where we need to go. smiles…
  
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bkmackenzie | July 31, 2011 at 5:24 PM | Reply

yes calm is difficult when annoyed…best to you..bkm

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- booguloo | July 31, 2011 at 6:32 PM | Reply
  
  Thanks bk.
  
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Judith Evans | July 31, 2011 at 6:13 PM | Reply

Yep, been there myself! You’ve captured the sometimes painful creative process very well in these lines.

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- booguloo | July 31, 2011 at 6:31 PM | Reply
  
  Thanks Judith.
  
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TheMsLvh | August 2, 2011 at 4:35 PM | Reply

Loved your comment on my poem today Michael. (hugs)
this is a great poem you wrote.

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- booguloo | August 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM | Reply
  
  Gratitude accepted and given!!
  
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