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The Muted Muse
A Poetry Collection
By
Jocelyne Smallian-Khan
Copyright © 2022
Jocelyne Smallian-Khan / Smallian-Khan Ltd.
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ISBN: 978-1-7780584-0-0
First Print Edition: January 2022
E-Book : ISBN 978-1-7780584-1-7 (March 2022)
Blocked
The ribbon, runs dry
The muse, is mute
Jocelyne Smallian-Khan
Table of Contents
Inarticulate .................................................. 2
Dreamtype ................................................... 3
Silent Typewriter ........................................ 4
The Muse .................................................... 5
At the desk .................................................. 6
Quiet Lizard ................................................ 7
Blank Canvas .............................................. 8
Blank Paper ................................................. 9
Remembering ............................................ 10
Retreat ....................................................... 11
Delete, delete ............................................. 12
Driverless .................................................. 13
So Much Rage ........................................... 14
Human Failure .......................................... 15
I think… .................................................... 16
Creative Drought ....................................... 17
Diversion ................................................... 18
Silence ....................................................... 19
2AM .......................................................... 20
Noaughts ................................................... 21
Adam ......................................................... 22
Pretense ..................................................... 23
About the Author ...................................... 24
More from Jocelyne .................................. 25
Inarticulate
The itch of an idea
Prickling in my brain
It scurries and scrabbles into corners
Eluding catch…
Eluding scratch…
The sting of inspiration swells
Throbbing, throbbing
My pulse beats with a need to create
Something…
Anything…
A slice of insight
Slashing my soul
My gasping psyche stretches out
Reaching…
Screeching…
Beseeching…
Dreamtype
I have been dreaming of typewriters
Old manual Underwoods
And electric Olivettis
Are appearing nocturnally
In my mind’s meanderings
Remington reminiscences
Chunka-chuka and clickity-clickty
Pages rolling up and down
ziiip... ziiip
Striiitch... Thunkkk... Dinggg
Maybe my mind is telling me
That I should step away
From the computer
And get reacquainted
With an old friend
...Dinggggg
