Waiting to be Struck

By: Matthew Morefield Tanzer

Sometimes I just sit there,

waiting to be struck,

with one poetic thought.

Other times I am struck,

with a line to my poem,

and I have nowhere,

to write it down.

Inspiration comes from,

nature and the world.

It comes from the people,

I meet,

the ones I love and hate.

Inspiration comes to me,

on its own schedule.

I do not choose to be

inspired.

When I am inspired,

I have no choice,

but to write.