A Poet's Ode to Inspiration

Poetry is cactus flowers,
Fuchsia/violet/maize buds
Swimming in arid imagination
Through a sand clogged desert of writer's block.

Reluctant to blossom 
and edging to die,
Verbs swallowed whole by torrents of adverbs
Nouns reaching heavens in agonied growth.

Fertility rampage in rain here-
Reluctant in requisite drought.

The ecosystem of inspiration, balanced and blanched
Gleams ivory scuttle white in the moment of muse.