Creativity on the Blink

Giulietta Passarelli
iPoetry
Published in
2 min readOct 6, 2024

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or on vacation

Photo by Andrew Dunstan on Unsplash

I think my creativity went out the window
even on a sunny, warm day
nothing comes to me, so I hesitate to
write anything and then it’s just blah,
blah, blah

the warm sun on the patio windows
makes everything appear close to me
my nervousness stirring in a pot
grabs me and sticks like dust clinging to
the floor

the emptiness is worse than nerves
acting up
I await the next word or sentence
and it’s like waiting to fly at an
airport, stuffy and long

my beautiful plants on the patio
feeling the sunlight so I make myself
go to the door and open it to feel what
they’re feeling

my motivation feels mostly like a
sinking ship
yet love keeps me afloat
above what’s needed to do
beyond what can and can’t be done
and what is and isn’t
and like an eagle, I start to soar to
the place where jittery nerves settle
down and worries disappear

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Giulietta Passarelli
iPoetry

Author/Poet/Writer of middle gr. novels, short stories, poems, for adults, YA, the ageless: https://www.gpassarelli.com; updates website every 1st of the month.