I liked your poem above. The idea of writing about what your writing with, and where it ends up. Very creative.

Your thoughts remind me a bit of when I run into someone on the street I know, haven't seen in a long while, and cannot remember their name. The harder I try, the further it gets from the tongue. I think writing must be a bit like that. And poetry must be even worse. The harder you try, the more you want it, the worse it gets. My first thought was to go to @mariannewest 's freewrite, an jump-start ideas with that timer. But on second thought, you are a grand writer, and writing seems different to me than poetry. In writing, you can just sit down and 'start writing', and at least something often comes out. As it does not always have to end up as a final piece, like a poem, that makes sense. But poetry stands alone within itself, and if it is just 'talk', is nothing more than just that. Does that make any sense? Seems my idea is kind of rambling about like some of my freewrites. But they seem to me to be different animals in the altogether.

Whatever the case, seems to me if you just write non-poetry for awhile, whatever moves you, about life, etc, the creative process will re-ignite in the direction you desire. Like a whit cat, ignore it, before you know it, you've got more hair on your black pant-legs than the innards of a feather pillow.

I hope you are wrong about the site, as I love it here, but who knows. Just time to keep on keepin on. I DO think many people are SO busy with summer right now, combined with the decreased value, it's gotten pretty quiet. But I suppose I'm no different, I'm not posting as much. Too much to do right now outside the site. And as you know, writing something of at least minor quality, takes a lot of time. Well, I've filled a notebook here. Have a nice restathe weekend.