Facing performance anxiety-
my lifelong vocal nemesis-
is like flying with clipped wings;
floating in an updraft,
crashing to the ground.
This songbird has
restricted
air flow…..
BREATHE
For mindlovesmisery prompt: Immobilizing paranoia
I have had performance anxiety my entire life. As a singer, it has been a lifetime of frustration and terror. I love to sing with all my heart, but I am limited by my inability to sing in front of others. So I compromise and record songs and put them out on my other blog. At first, just recording them was a herculean effort, although with practice I am much more comfortable knowing that all I need do is erase it if I don’t like what I hear. Someday I would like to sing live. I am to record the background for my dad’s memorial service and I cringe at the thought that others will hear it. But I know my dad would love for me to do this for his service, so I shall persevere.
Absolutely gorgeous nonet. I am sorry to hear about the performance anxiety you have such a beautiful voice
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I am afraid of making a mistake or hitting a wrong note! And I hate standing up there “on display” with everyone staring at…me…just me! Freaks me out!
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Such a beautiful poem! I enjoy writing the Nonet. I also like writing reverse Nonets 🙂 Performance anxiety stinks! I don’t like being up in front of everyone either. I avoid it whenever possible.
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I have enjoyed all the poetry forms so far except that Pleiades is a tough one! 🙂 As far as performance anxiety I get really crazy symptoms like my vision goes dark and I cant breathe and I begin to shake really hard. I take clonazepam and most of the symptoms go away. At least something helps!
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