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Writer’s Block
It’s crushing
when real-life trauma
crashes into the middle
of writing a beautiful story.
The make-believe world is shelved.
days pass—
months.
The heart
cannot tell the hand
to write beautifully
when it’s just trying
to keep pumping.
Maybe the stories
will breathe again
once air returns to the lungs—
when breath becomes possible.
When the fog lifts
from the damage,
from the darkness.
When the eyes
begin to see color again,
after so long
of only black and white.
When the voice in the head whispers:
You are okay.
The trauma happened to you—
but it is not you.
A tiny flicker of fire,
a smoldering ember,
waits in silence,
day after day—
months, a year.
Hoping the writer
will seek even a glimmer
in the deep dark
that swallowed the soul.
No one saw the time it stole—
that deep,
aching emptiness.
Sometimes,
devastation
is a place you don’t come back from.
The story once poured
onto pages—
no one will feel
what the writer once held.
Love,
laughter,
tucked gently
in a single smoldering flame,
lost in a universe of black.
The story
now buried deep
within the writer’s chest.
The writer stopped writing.
The characters died.
The story died
within the writer.
The story died.
The writer-
The ember.
About this poem
Her poetry is rooted in lived experience, particularly navigating the intersections of loss, healing, and creativity. Her work often centers on the emotional spaces between what is felt and what is spoken, using poetry to hold both vulnerability and hope. “Writer's Block” is a deeply personal piece about the pause of life. The silence trauma imposes and the quiet ember that endures beneath it. This is her first submission to a literary journal, and she hopes it resonates with others who have lost and are still finding their voice. more »
I was born in California and raised on a farm in South Dakota. Now 63, my writing reflects a life richly lived and lost, offering a realistic view while also imagining what can be. I have a passion for family, friends, music, beach walks, and fantasy football—a life of simplicity in the complexity of now. more…
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