Written by Susan Lane SLCM Keeper of ColourMine
Do You Want to Write?
Write: From disaster through recovery, and changes to me personally, the feelings have come out through my poetry. I’m hoping that you can see every path has a light that leads you to something brighter if you just give it a chance
Write From Disaster
There I was having had a full term still birth,
That was supposed to be my child number three
But that didn’t happen, unfortunately
Eventually I found the words
Many moons after but did it really help
Well, maybe a smidge but It was really difficult
To process everything
That had happened to me you see
Well, that event was in 2001
The poem was still running around
It hadn’t even gotten to my tongue
Then all of a sudden, I let it burst free
Slow Recovery
It finally aired in 2015
“My Handsome Stranger” flew from me
With all of the feelings but unfortunately
No heartbeat
I suppose I must have felt guilty
Because I hadn’t planned him, no siree
But then what about my other two children
How were they different from number three
They weren’t planned either you see
So, I’m wondering what was so different
With number three and me
I still don’t know and it will probably be
Eternally, one of life’s mysteries
That will never be revealed to me
So, then to the poems,
The first in 2015
The Dam Burst
Then nothing more from me
Until ten years later
When all of a sudden
They came bursting out of me
One book then two, three and four
Plus, ColourMine on the internet
Slowly opening doors
Then came the sharing for me
First one poem onto Instagram
Called “The Empty Pen”
Then nothing shared until I felt it time
To let my poems be seen
By everyman and his dog
On Facebook, via my friends
Then I decided to change my privacy
Just on my poems
So that you could all read
My different poems about all kinds of things
A few weeks later I decided
To let them be seen by more people
Sharing to LinkedIn
So, onto LinkedIn I ventured
That was a huge decision for me
Because I didn’t even know
If I actually like that platform you see
Whenever I visit LinkedIn, it always seems to me
A very strange platform
That gives the appearance of being there to help
People get employment
With advice and contacts
But apparently that’s not the case
According to lots of posts that say
There are better places to share your resumes
Your life stories, to help you be seen
And LinkedIn, well, that platform seems to be
Just for backslapping and shoulder scratching
So, I came to the conclusion that if LinkedIn
Is LinkedIn Suitable for Me
Is just for sharing course and information
Then maybe it is the place for me
Share my poems which encourage you
To be your own person
Write down your dreams
To fly in the face of uncertainty
Then maybe someone of influence
Might just see
That instead of a boring interview
Which if you’re coached properly
Can get you the job
Even with your lack of capability
They also can then help you wing it
Through your three-month trial period
Then you’re there indefinitely
And can lean on others to help you
To do everything specified
In your job description
Even if you aren’t and have never been
Fully capable you see. instead of that
Showing Your Strengths – Write
You could show your full diversity
Something that will make your shine
And explain more fully
About you and your work ethic
Your staying power, life decisions
Capability of mind
And whether you can
Start a project and follow it through
Making it talk and sing for you
Now, even with dyslexia there is no reason
To be shy of showing your extensive personality
Nowadays, it’s so much easier to see your ability
Because if your head is full of ideas
And you want to be a writer
Then there are different things
That can help you be seen
Remember, They Are Just Tools
Like Copilot, ChatGPT, Quillbot and Grammarly
If you use them then you will certainly be
Able to improve and expand your capabilities
Into something that others will want to see and read
Because not every writer is a professor
Or have the capability
Of writing a scientific thesis
When they begin, and lots of them
Even with those qualifications some still use a typist
To help with getting their ideas down on paper
Or saving to hard disk, cloud or flash drive
Because their handwriting is so atrocious
And the struggle reading it would create a great divide
Their typing speed is negligible
So, it would probably be ready
Sometime in the next century
You Can’t Be Too Careful
So, wherever your starting point
Don’t be embarrassed
Just have a go and see
As long as everything is legible
To you and me
Write something amazing
Share it everywhere
But if it’s for a book or a magazine
The thing that is most important
Is to pop it through Copyleaks
So, you can be certain that
You don’t be daft and plagiarise anything
It checks billions of writings across the board
Just to see if what you write is truly yours
Then you are less likely you see
To be in the crapper
For stealing something written
By someone else previously
Even if it was something
Written in the last century or last week
You may have remembered and accidentally
Wrote it out and thought it was yours genuinely
So, good luck I wish to you and congratulations
In advance for everything you choose to do.
Writing is Everywhere
Just remember that not everything
That is written is a book,
a poem or an article in a magazine
Some writings are just reports
For your job or company
But still, everything needs to be
Completely legible for us to understand and read
Now I think it’s time I went and grabbed
A nice hot cup of decaffeinated tea.
© Susan Lane. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission from the author.
ColourMine poetry, and the original photographs, are completely authentic to myself, Susan Lane – no AI, no plagiarism, all checked and verified by copyleaks
Apologies for the emoji presentation – I tested several, but this was the only one that worked reliably on ColourMine. Just click the box next to the emoji and hit submit, and I’ll know if the poem resonated with you. Thank you for sharing your feelings.
More poems written by Susan Lane, and you can choose by category
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There’s Always Something More
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