THE BARRIER

I have had a lifelong barrier, fear of writing a word.

I am intellectually and verbally firm, but when I put it down on paper things go very wrong.

Form filling is a nightmare if there is a need for elaboration and creative wording about my career expectations.

I hunt through and choose short easy familiar words instead of expansive, creative, flowing, intellectually-shaking wonderful words.

Oh, I know them, they are very familiar to me and I long to use them with a creative flourish, if only my brain could be attached to paper without the use of a pen.

If I could think them down, see them cascading over the page in fluent picturesque abundance.

Now I have discovered a wonderful key! Spell-check, it's part of my computer package.

Now I am set free, I can't stop writing; words are pouring out from me.

Alright, sometimes I am stumped when I am given a choice and a dictionary is needed to finish the word I really mean,

On one or two occasions I still make an error but, oh gosh, it is getting better and better.

Now I will show you!

The world of words has swung open for me, I am free!!!

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My Pen & I

 

As a writer, I love my travel time, as it takes me on new adventures. 

I meet new people and gather more wonderful stories. 

Writing never seems to stress me, it is a long-suppressed joy!

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POWER OF THE PEN

Once the connection started, 

Thoughts began flowing through, 

Creating a good emotional storytime!

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I READ

I read a poem this morning, that opened wide my eyes!

Made me shake up my thinking and quickly realise, I could do a whole lot better if I concentrated much harder.

Believed in myself a great deal more.

Perhaps spreading the need for self-belief to others stuck in the same wretched disbelief hole.

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My Pen & I

 

My Pen & I

 

As a writer, 

I love my travel time, 

As it takes me on new adventures. 

I meet new people 

And gather more wonderful stories. 

Writing never seems to stress me, 

It is a long-suppressed joy!

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POWER OF THE PEN

 

Once the connection started, 

Thoughts began flowing through, 

Creating a good emotional storytime. 

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Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash

WRITER

To write a note that reveals my mind, for others to read with eyes unkind.

It hurts to stand and wait for signs of pleasure or pretence or total lack of insight and understanding.

I never did suspect I'd feel so raw, exposed and unprotected, like a desert.

 

I stand to wait for that one spot of rain to propel me into putting pen to paper once again.

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TRYING TO JUDGE

 

I am a miserable judge of my own writing. Some pieces, long or short, which I personally enjoy writing, or feel might be impactful for others, fail! While others, written on a whim and at speed, receive appreciation, be the subject of sorrow, masked anger, despair, love, comedy, fantasy or everyday amusing thoughts.

I have come to the personal conclusion that the binding thread that makes the impact is where or what my readers and I are struggling with at the emotional moment when reading or writing.

The joy for me is when someone writes, saying, “Thank you. You helped me out of a dark place.” Or words to that effect. They give the judgement of value and propel me into writing again and again.

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I LOVE TO WRITE

 

It is hard to believe I have dared to write on this page because, for half of my life, I lived in terror of the written word. With the use of technology, that has all changed. 

Unbelievably, I now love writing; I really do. Hardly a day goes by without my pen being on the move. 

It takes me into all kinds of situations and emotions, triggered by a conversation, a picture, music, the news, and animal and bird interactions. Not to mention the weather, a trigger and beginning for conversations with strangers.

Now it is a strange day if I have no time to write. I love writing and my hope is it will encourage others to write, too.

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National Poetry Day

 

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MY STORY

 

I am your WobblingPen and here is my story, my journey to your hand: It all started a long time ago.

Back when first learning to write independently, the first spelling mistakes took place.

Can you imagine a face struggling to grasp the correct letters of a word, and failing miserably, two cheeks blushing ashamed at the misspelt words.

This is why I directed my efforts into Storytelling, rather than Story Writing.

My powers of observation sharpened, coupled with excellent hearing and I saw people, animals, places, emotions and the highs and lows of life good and bad flying around me in different parts of the World. I had no need of a pen, I could tell Stories.

So I picked up a wide vocabulary of fun words and wrote them down misspelled on paper, for my eyes only, arranging the thoughts into words and phrases, pictured sounds and noises and listened to more words used in our world. Before relaying them as verbal stories and sharing them.

This started verbally at the age of four. Family and friends were amazed and listened to my early Wobbling thoughts. It was only much later that the word dyslexic was mentioned.

In 1993 when my first computer arrived, with the magic of a spell checker in place I began to write my stories down for others to read. However I am still a Storyteller first, Writer and Poet second.

Now I still wander around, wondering in our world, catching interesting glimpses of your lives and mine to capture as a Story.

Join me and let’s Wobble together...

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THE RIGHT TO WRITE

 

How our pens long to right the wrongs. to restore sanity back where it belongs,

Bringing smiles back into view, allowing once again tasks we used to do naturally.

Returning songs so divine to birds, who have flown away and been silent all this time.

Calming dogs and children who cower in fear, at any unexpected noise heard quite near.

Write we must to encourage the soothing balm of peace, to return strongly and walk, once again, protectively amongst us.

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PEN TO PAPER

 

PEN TO PAPER

Thoughts about putting pen to paper and it’s long-term effects.

Thinking about it, I was reminded of my terror of writing for half my life. Yet I did write, not knowing how important what I wrote would be.

Each year I have a diary, some filled with lots of excitement, and others have big empty patches. I look at wondering what happened there, trying hard to remember.

If you are anything like me you put little notes in as well, they make very interesting reading, producing quite several laughs.

If this has stirred your interest in looking at the past and writing new stories, from your old books it will have been worth my putting my pen to paper.

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My Writing Day

 

MEMORIES OF FOUNTAIN PENS

 

MEMORIES OF FOUNTAIN PENS

I loved my fountain pens and used to rush to my Dad to have them repaired when it seemed like they were at their end.

He had a drawer of bits and pieces,

I watched anxiously, under his care ink would run through and my pen would be saved to write stories again.

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TYPEWRITER

 

Typewriter,

Dancing to it's own rules,

Have to find a way to tame it.

Took me half an hour

To write the last piece.

I will be back.

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A GLANCE

 

When passing a mirror, 

I happened to see new wrinkles looking back at me.

How did they appear so quickly?

Glancing again hoping the angle was better, 

The effect was the same.

Those wrinkles had come to stay, 

They would not leave again.

Unless I smiled. 

Then they sprang into a different line.

So constant smiling, is now a act I have learned to acquire,

To hide my wrinkles with what I hope is a beautiful smile.

You should try it, as it works.

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OH BED!

 

Oh bed you seem so inviting,

Yet your pull is not enough

I must keep on writing, writing.

Stories slip with speed across my mind.

I dare not stop or they will escape.

I try to keep on repeating so I can find

Them one more time.

Oh bed I know you are still calling,

I am sorry to keep ignoring your desire.

One more line to write before falling,

Into bed to rest my oh so weary head,

Till morning.

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