I wanted to give you a different post today, seeing as there’s been a lot of poetry posts and I wanted to give you something else to read about to inspire or make you happy. However this has happened to me for the last few days for various different reasons, and I’d like to know…Has it ever happened to you?…
A Brilliant Idea!
I had a brilliant idea today,
Of blog post for you to read,
One that would make you smile,
Make you click on it in your feed.
But then a knock at the door,
Distracted me for a while,
And when I returned to write,
I dropped my very smile.
What was I going to write,
Oh, what was I going to say,
Write a funny story,
An article or a play?
I’d forgotten all the words,
The very core of my post,
I thought I could remember,
Think back…..Almost.
But no, they were now gone,
Never to be returned,
I should have written it down,
A painful lesson learned.
So here is what I wrote,
A little poem for you instead,
Maybe you’ll think it funny,
Or a balloon filled with lead.
-Poem first appeared online Janruary 2018 – now republished here.
Have you ever completely forgotten what you wanted to write about, or what you wanted to do? What reasons have made you forget, a knock at a door, a notification, etc.? Let me know what you think in the comments below 🙂
The Strawberry Post 
I cannot tell you how many times this happens to me! I should have a pen welded to my hand and remember to use it!
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Lol, I feel like that! I keep thinking up good ideas where it’s least convenient too, like in the bath or when I’m stuck on a busy train and don’t have access to pen and paper…I’m rubbish at note-taking on my phone!
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Just going through a bit of writer’s block at the moment hahaha haven’t forgotten anything
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Well I wouln’dt worry about that 😀 Just don’t push yourself to write something if you feel blocked, at least you remember what you want to write – unlike me, lol 😀 😉
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Yes, I’ve had this happen. A knock at the door. The phone ringing. One of the dogs needing something at just the wrong moment. Just to name a few things that have distracted me enough to make me forget what I was going to write. That’s not counting those times I’ve had a great idea right before falling asleep – whether for a poem, story, or blog post – only to wake in the morning and find all I can remember is that I had a great idea, or the times I’m doing something and an idea comes, but I don’t finish what I’m doing and write it down in time, so forget.
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Yes! It’s so frustrating! I’ve had that same ting when you’re falling off to sleep and the idea just comes to you. I always think, I’ll definitely write this when I get up…’write what?’ I ask myself the next day, lol
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LOL 😀
Great poem.
That stuff actually happens to me in the opposite way! I’m writing blog posts (or whatever) and forget to do other things.
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Thank you 🙂 Lol, I wish I had your ‘problem’. I’d only be too happy to remember all my blog post ideas…who cares about the washing up, lol!
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I usually get space and time to write it. If a knock or trips ask for by neighbors, I’m working on WordPress to record them.
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That’s good, it’s no fun not remembering what you wanted to write, belive me, lol 😀 Thanks for visiting and commenting 🙂 🙂
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Dear me! This is so funny and true to the core! I love it!😊
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Thank you 😀
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