What's Your Inspiration? Poem by Mary Nagy

What's Your Inspiration?



How are you inspired?
Are you inspired by the sun?
Does it warm your skin from deep within?
Is it your number one?

Is it the pounding rain
that makes you want to write?
When you hear the plop of the first few drops
is it something you can't fight?

Or does it take a heartache?
A pain that runs so deep.
A mournful cry that makes you sigh
for the secrets that you keep?

Are you inspired by sorrow?
The wretched lonely ache
of a lonely soul that has no goal?
Is this what it will take?

Do you look for inspiration
or does it look for you?
Will it be your friend until the end?
Tell me what inspires you.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Shannon Chapel 31 December 2005

Well done, Mary! It's so funny, but I used to write all the time, then life happened. lol So for years I didn't write, and for years nothing inspired me to write. No ideas woke me in the middle of the night. No lines of prose popped into my brain begging to be written down. But I've recently rediscovered the love, and I find that now that my mindset is centered around writing again the words find me - as it's always been in my case. I don't seek them out, but rather the opposite. Lovely, thought-provoking poem. A 10 from me. Shannon

0 0 Reply
Max Reif 31 December 2005

I like that you get both sides, the up and down, of inspiration. I think the down side may not be the sorrow or depression itself, but the desire to come out of isolation about it...but there may be many dimensions of it.

0 0 Reply
Raynette Eitel 31 December 2005

Very nicely put, Mary. I still think I have a muse...because poems come to me out of nowhere...but I am sure to write a poem after listening to a lot of Cole Porter lyrics. In fact, after watching 'DeLovely, ' a film about Cole Porter's life, I sat down and wrote three poems in a row...none necessarily connected to his work. Just one of my inspirations. :) Bless you. Raynette

0 0 Reply
Ernestine Northover 31 December 2005

Usually, a line in my head, or an action in front of my eyes, or a picture, a movement, actually anything can suddenly start my mind flowing with words. As the dictionary explains it ' A sudden or timely idea' - 'The divine influence supposed to have led to the writing of the Bible' - 'Inhalation' - 'The process or quality of being inspired' - 'A person or thing that inspires'. There you have it, but it still doesn't explain where it all comes from? Back to the question! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Love Ernestine XXX I loved the poem, as usual your brilliant write.

0 0 Reply
Ray Andrews 31 December 2005

What a GREAT POEM. I just love it! ! ! Happy New Year to All Ray

0 0 Reply
John Churchill 08 May 2006

What a lovely thought provoking poem. It's the first one of yours I've read. As someone who just tries to write poetry for fun, you and others like you inspire me with the magical pictures you paint. To love and to be loved, happiness and sorrow all these things inspire me, Thank you for helping me, John

0 0 Reply
Brian Dorn 03 May 2006

Mary, great question to end a great poem! My answer, if I had to choose one, would be heartache... and then I kind of branch out from there. Brian

0 0 Reply
K. Jared Hosein 12 March 2006

MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSIIIIICCCCCCCC! And pretty landscapes: -D And... things I hate... we'll not go into that. Very nice read, Mary. - K.

0 0 Reply
Howard Johnson 03 March 2006

Great poem, I feel like it was me.

0 0 Reply
Julia Klimenova 07 February 2006

Simple and true. And very inspiring :) Julia

0 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Close
Error Success