These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Staying Fresh

Staying fresh with poems now
is really quite a trick.
The blank page stares. I don't know how.
I'm feeling slightly thick.

I like to write a poem through
the five days of the week,
but sometimes I can't make it new,
no matter how I seek.

'Tis then it's best to write about
the struggles of the day.
I've nothing left to laud, nor tout
no matter what I say.

These verses mostly mark the place
within my daily blog
to sit aside in slight disgrace
as coffee's new-formed bog.

An exercise of rhythm, rhyme
when subjects are undone,
revives the heart 'til most sublime
as word's new story's won.

by Jay O’Toole
on June 13th, 2024