A Page Without Text – 1st November 2025

~ shaun tenzenmen

Very much inspired by Kim Russell’s great poem here

It was beauty that killed the beast
but the words live on between the lines
We all go a little mad sometimes,
inspired to try again sometimes
You’re going to need a bigger boat
to hold all the babbled speaking
Trust is a tough thing to come by these days
and now we’re slowly leaking

I know what you did last summer,
I know what you’ll be doing the next
You know, there are two kinds of evil,
writer’s block, the page without text
We are the ones who dwell within 
waiting for the written to be read
Where we’re going, we don’t need eyes to see
but ears to hear what is said

It is truth, but truth is not always appearance,
often it is lies
Fiddlesticks, I don’t know what possessed me
to offer you this surprise

10 thoughts on “A Page Without Text – 1st November 2025”

  1. Thank you so much for the mention and sharing my poem, Shaun. I love the way you included so many of the given lines from horror films and wove them neatly into your poem. I love these lines:

    ‘You’re going to need a bigger boat
    to hold all the babbled speaking’

    and

    ‘You know, there are two kinds of evil,
    writer’s block, the page without text’.

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    1. Thanks Kim. When I read the first line of your poem, I thought to myself, ‘oh, I wondered if they’ve used multiple quotes, that would be fun’, but you took your write in a different direction. And then I thought that I should run with the idea, using the American sentence form and the idea about writing/poetry. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙏

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