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"If I don't write to empty my mind I go mad" - Lord Byron, 'I've just had eighteen straight whiskeys. I think that's the record.' - Dylan Thomas, “I dip my pen in the blackest ink because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light white hot - on paper.” - Ray Bradbury, It. Will. Out., There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed., Write, Write me real pretty, Writing, You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.- Ray Bradbury
This poem makes me laugh, he was bob on, oh to escape the procrastinator, but it is also true as he says that creation batters its way out of us quite brutally when it wants to, you never know quite what you’ll end up with, but you do know it needs feeding and by the Gods of all sizes . . . it, will, out**
Air and Light and Time and Space by Charles Bukowski
‘- you know, I’ve either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
way
but now
I’ve sold my house, I’ve found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I’m going to have a place and
the time to
create.’
no baby, if you’re going to create
you’re going to create whether you work
16 hours a day in a coal mine
or
you’re going to create in a small room with 3 children
while you’re on
welfare,
you’re going to create with part of your mind and your
body blown
away,
you’re going to create blind
crippled
demented,
you’re going to create with a cat crawling up your
back while
the whole city trembles in earthquakes, bombardment,
flood and fire.
baby, air and light and time and space
have nothing to do with it
and don’t create anything
except maybe a longer life to find
new excuses
for.
.
.
.
.
**The following is from one of Esme’s collection on this very theme (just the end of the poem)
This is writing.
This is acting.
This is painting.
It’s art.
This is living creation that tears you apart.
It’s a purge and a joy within us that shouts
And, much like Lady Macbeth’s bloodied hands . . . it, will, out.
Esme's Cloud 
Esme, yes to “. . . it will out.”
ENDURE
Now to create is a wonder
A wonder for sure
You sacrifice all
To find and ensure
Then realize lately
With the utmost furor
That God fucked up big time
Creating people to endure.
Just a thought from Tubularsock on a happy sunny day.
Cheers.
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And an excellent thought too Tubular! Love it, indeed, though I think humans are more the devil’s work, then again God’s work is apparently much the same so fair point. I do enjoy getting a poem back from people!
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The end is what I liked the most 😉
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I’ll bet. Hahahahahahaha.
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I love it! I love Bukowski. And your words are great as well! ☺️
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Ah you’ve very kind m’dear, and he really hits the spot at times, no punches pulled, great poetry. I’m aiming to read one of his novels soon too, ‘Post Office’, have you read it?
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No I haven’t. I’m not much of a reader. I wish I could read-No concentration or patience. But from what I’ve read he is good yes. I admire his honesty. 👋🏻
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I have developed a similar problem, so I feel you (no funny business); I can’t read anything over around 300 pages and even then have to be reading it with someone else, not in the same room, but a friend who emails me every day to talk about the chapters we’ve already read, so it sticks in my head. Even then it’s a bit of a struggle, and it has nothing to do with how much I want to read the book either. There must be something in the water up North! That’s why I love poetry all the more I guess, silver linings and all that beams.
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I struggle even reading 3 pages. My mind wanders off into my own fantasy world. I then have to go back and reread. Novels that is. I’m better with other types of books. Like about meditation or an autobiography about a person that has my interest. I basically only write. People think that writers are automatically avid readers but I’m an exception to the rule. Plus I think reading subconsciously plants things in your brain how to write and takes away your own creativity….and dust mites feast on that 😂
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Hahahahaha, they’ve vicious wee beasts! I read 3-4 novels a month for decades then began to lose the capabilities, I like to think I managed to fit it all in early falls about. There are no rules really with writers and creativity, it’s only when people understand that, that they begin to appreciate it all and bloom.
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