First grab your courage

Sign up, sign in

Take your pledge to follow through

 

Stare at the screen, white and pristine

Hear it sing in quiet words

Floating about above your head

 

Place your fingers

Carefully on the keys

Make them dance around

Pulling words from the air

Light, airy,

Dark, destructive

 

Entice the muses

Make them your friend

Sit them on your shoulder to watch

Feed them coffee and Cheez-Its

Play with them

Amuse them

 

Form the poem

Structure

Simile, metaphor

Random musings

Rhythm, rhyme

Freedom to galivant

Bring in heroes, villains

A piece of toast

 

Edit it

Publish it

Send it out into the world

Your baby into the ethers

Sit back, relax

Until the hour is done

Sip your coffee, pet your muse

Repeat