writer's block

[MarcusB]

wherefrom comes this silence

whose voice has gone from the mist
  no matter how i turn
    or incline my head
      not one resounds

surely they have not finished
  their words have brought me to this place
    i am scarcely begun writing
see how the blood still drips
  from the quill of my pen
    there is story yet to unfold

yet silent they are
  and i shiver
    as if a chill has joined me
equally quiet it speaks of death
  and finality
    though i have hardly begun

whereto my muses
  why do you bait me so
you demand, no, you command
  and i write to your pleasure
you have always been here
  clanging and echoing through my mind
    but now - now i find myself alone

looking across the void
  to focus on that which lies before me
    i shudder
whether from cold
  or the truth before my eyes
    i know not

blast it to the heavens
  where have you gone
why do you forsake
  at a time i need you most

still naught but muted space

is there no one to answer
  none to tell me
   
wherefrom comes this silence

[Gyppo]

Your muse(s) are probably still talking to you, but you can't hear them because you're going on at great length about them not talking to you ;-)

Seriously, it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy if you worry about it too much.

Sometimes the muse takes a break, goes out to buy fish and chips, or have a quiet drink somewhere with the other muses who are also taking a break.  

If you're real writer they'll come back, that's a promise, and they'll probably feel much better for the break.

Also, they get a bit pissed off with authors who are too clingy, who rely on them too much instead of digging into their own subconscious and stirring things up a bit for themselves.

But they rarely really leave you.

Ask your muse a question before you fall asleep, and they may well answer you in a dream.

Gyppo

[MarcusB]

Your muse(s) are probably still talking to you, but you can't hear them because you're going on at great length about them not talking to you ;-)

That would be my trick in a hat box.  Over-talk it to the point of believing it to the point of making it come true

... so if they don't go away - - do they play Hide 'n Seek? 

[Gyppo]

That would be my trick in a hat box.  Over-talk it to the point of believing it to the point of making it come true

... so if they don't go away - - do they play Hide 'n Seek? 

Spot on.