Ars Poetica

***Writing Tip: The term Ars Poetica is used to refer to a poem instructing how to create a poem.  Here I show the pain, healing, well of words, word block, and exhaustion it takes to create a poem.  Write your own poem about poetry and see what you find out about yourself. ***

The sting of a thousand bees,

Anticipation intensifying the pain,

The IV pushes in.

So necessary,

Yet so resented,

Medicine runs through my veins.

Traveling to my heart

It goes, so my wounds

Can finally heal.

The nurse seals the insertion site

And adhesive sticks,

Dry plastic irritating my skin.

I push through the pain

Past the irritation,

Straight to the heart as I heal.

Saline runs through,

Keeping me from dehydration

As the well of words springs forth.

The heparin lock fills my mouth

With pricks of metal

And the portal is clogged.

There is nothing

As I lay back against the sheets

Of my sterile hospital bed.