Story Writer

Dear Page

You face me, blank and gleaming white

Your brightness dazzles with backlight.

My fingers hover over keys

Give me inspiration please.

A letter containing information

But I have had no inspiration

What to write? I have no clue.

Ideas required, to pursue.

I need a theme, a story line.

Halloween? A ghostly sign,

Bats soar, owls cry in moonless night.

Ghosts float, vampires suck; eyes shut tight.

Guy Fawkes? Tortured burnt on a pyre

Darkness lit by flaming fire,

Plot toffee chewed with eyes alight

As rockets whoosh, boom, delight.

Centenary of World War one?

A poppy for each mother’s son,

Who died protecting me and you.

A theme too sad to follow through.

Perhaps leaves twirling to the ground

Red, gold, brown blown all around

The theme of autumn days grown short

Could be the story I have sought.

The page is full of thoughts rejected

No longer blank but I’m dejected

Time for me to say goodbye.

You cannot say I did not try.

Yours sincerely,

Very nearly

Feeling brighter

Letter writer

Read Hazel's other poems: