Someone Else�s Muse

Ms. Muse has gone, vacationing
to relax with a book of another�s contemplations.
Giving herself over
to gentle wanderings of the mind.

Time away from hard fought battles
quips and wits fatigue.
To renew her temperate nature
and spent energies.

Her umbrella sits �just so�, allowing
les sol lei to caress languid limbs .
Its warmth sooths away, knitted brow
and pursed lips of concentration.

As each page turns,  tension
eases and is no more.
She savors each word, not of her making
like fine Bordeaux rolling across her tongue.

And so, she sits as her imagination
soars with another�s ideas.
Resting and filling her drained spirit
finding strength in someone else�s muse.

By:  Graci

(c) 2001 -- Lorrie S. Workman

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