Day 4's Poem:
Overcoming the Block
She touched her foot to the computer chassis,
Not knowing quite what to write this time
Life dripped away like wet paint
Keeping a beat to the steady passing of time
Her fingertips pounded over random keys
She looked back at past successes
Life kept twinkling in front of her
While she kept passing opportunity by
The calendar screamed at her
Pay attention to experience you won’t find
The day that you can repeat
After all, Groundhog’s Day was just a movie
And Bill Murray’s character wasn’t one
You’d like to meet
She grasps at the right words
The perfect meter
A rhyme that will drop everyone from his or her feet
She leaned back in her chair, studying
Degrees and awards
Remembered what it was like to be honored
When the faculty and students praised her
She recalls her nickname, “logic goddess”
And her fingertips pound decisively
Bringing together every random letter
Bringing together every planned word
She smiles at the past successes
And has security in the future.
After all, all her brilliances are recorded from
The certificates that hang steadily on the wall
