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#Poetry - Don't Scorn Love

If you had been where I have been in the strange land accursed, And you had seen what I have seen, You would not laugh at love. I went to a distant land in search of love. That wasteland in the West the thing around her waist! Like rose Like honey-dipped rose. Her aura claimed my nose. Red all through to its petal-tips. I coveted the curve of her mouth, The scent of her breath and the red of her lips. Just one look at her supple skin and my compass pointed thus. If you had done what I have done I became her drummer boy - You would know why I coo like the hummingbird troubled, terrified and thrilled by ecstasy. Stars blink in futility in the dark of the night, for her beauty denied them their shine. Even birds seal their lips, sit and watch me sing for love, it refined my voice Melody reigned in my words. Her smile, the glow Oh no! The light of the moon and rays of the sun in tune. History Stale tales The rose is dead It came from the West. My noon is dark It died in her nest. The birds

Scriptophobia: The Fear of Writing

Hello, dear, Thanks for your interest in reading Scriptophobia .  As a writer. You know how to write. You can write. You want to write. You know this and that, but it is still a battle you fight every day - The Fear of Writing. The fear doesn't go away. It just changes. The fear is always going to be there. The fear is going to change. Once you have conquered the first fear there will be new fear: A new worry. In the spirit of positive thinking let's call them challenges. Many times people avoid writing because of fears or anxieties they have about writing. In this book, some helpful questions guide a discussion about ways you can calm fears of writing and begin to work. Understanding where fears are generated, and then understanding ways our writing influences others, can help lessen the fear of writing. There will always be challenges and this book is a compass to the lost writer in the sea of doubts and fear. Sit, grab a cup of coffee and let’s deal with your fe