“Writer’s High” was inspired by Mary Oliver’s “Forty Years.”
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Writer's High
When words flow,
growing ideas
quickly, fervently
like purple petunias
spreading like velvet waves
I become lost
yet free, found
feeling other
like the runner’s high
setting in
after miles run.
This writer’s high
transports me from
time, town to make-believe
where I thrive other-worldy
until a dog nose
cold, wet on the elbow
grounds me.
Sascha Darlington
Categories: NaPoWriMo 2019, poems
