Lost For Words

Poetry has always been a wonderful outlet for me... usually I express myself through poetry and art...but for many months the words that I love to push around into poems have escaped me. Usually poetry comes unbidden to my mind, but recently, in months gone by, whenever I thought of poetry, it somehow seemed forced if I tried to get something on paper. Daughter #2 has been taking art lessons from a local artist which I am happy to say has renewed my interest in all things art.  She has had some interesting exercises to complete for homework and I have been happy to watch with the feeling that I would really like to participate too. But I have not had time. With the 150 hour project looming I have had to make that my priority. Last evening, though, Daughter #2 brought home a book on drawing super heroes from the library.  We had a hoot looking through the cartoons and then I said I could draw the Daughters as cartoon super heroes.  Once I had finished the Daughters as super heroes, I felt the need to draw Teapot and moi as super heroes too... the results were hilarious...

Daughter #1 as Spike Lady. She has an ability to jump really high and really far and can use any type of weapon.

Daughter #2 as  Lightning lady who can fly and uses lightning bolts to knock out her opponents.

Teapot is Flash Man who uses the light of the sun to blind his opponents and can run extremely fast.

And Moi as Super Viking Lady who can knock 'em over with a smack in the face with her boobs and can stir any water to turbulence with her duodent (not trident) and can slam her opponents with water and surround them so they are encaged in water and can knock them over by running at them with her helmet.

We roared with laughter at my renditions of us as superheroes and then went out for dinner.

After I went to bed and had slept for several hours, I woke quite suddenly as the birds were beginning their morning chirping in the early dawn hours.... which got me to thinking about poems... and suddenly the words that had not been with me for so very long, were with me once again. Needless to say that I got up right away before the words escaped me once again. I wrote it down and they rolled off my tongue quite easily. You can see them at my other blog ... just click on the link.

In the end I'm not sure if it was the hilarity that brought words to my mind/mouth but I am thankful for the words because I thought I had lost them...