Page-Fright

Here is this Week'sWikem (poem from wikipedia)

White is the color most often associated with innocence...Wikipedia

White is also the color of an untouched page…

What shall I write about White? I asked Victoria staring from my empty screen-page to the window. Snow seems a little too obvious.

How about an empty page? Victoria quipped with a mischievous twinkle in her grin…

Page-fright

You return my stare

Innocence veiled

Where Muse has stoppered

A pen that has failed

I pine for the guileless

Untainted free-rein

Fearless, a stranger

To the poet’s pain

Somewhere ink flows

Like the rush of soft seas

Kissing rose pages

With passion and ease

Touching those places

My thought cannot find

And filling white spaces

Where Muse caters, kind

There on their paper

The night wind cajoles

Pleasing their hunger

And teasing their souls

Here in the corner

Of white what-might-be

I stare at the ornery air

Staring at me

© Janet Martin

I left my white page for a while and when I returned Fearless One (aka Victoria) had splashed her laughter on it.

Poems

There once was a girl

She looked like a squirrel

People made fun of her

And she cried, Gee Whillekers!

Where did he go?

Nobody knows

Oh, Silly me!

He was just in the *W.C

The kettle screeched

It screamed like a beast

Suki was getting quite put off

Polly! Take the kettle off!

*water closet