Sanity in Imagination

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane.”Florence Welch A shipIn a kiddie poolSwellsWith imagination I wrote a poemand told you it was BukowskiYou said it was brilliantI read you a BukowskiAnd told you I wrote itYou said I need more practice Ants scurry from my sleevesFirst tens, then hundredsThey settle …

Dangers in Distraction

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Crystal blue shardsRain down from aboveThe sky is fallingAn open eyefills the void There is a worldlostIn the cracks of pavementThe peopleSpeak of giantsNot knowing the giantsAre little peopleWith giants of their own A perfectsphere RollsDownhillLevitatingan inch off  the groundRepelled  By unearthly  …

Born From Who Knows Where

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.Hamlet, William Shakespeare Where were you,cos you certainly weren't here Daydreaming Well, that much is clearBut where did you go? Honestly...I don't know I lost my train ofthought daydreaming WildMonkey barsWhere cavorting primatesHang about They mooThey jump over moonsButNeverhave I seen a cow smilePerhapsA …

Escaping Shifting Sands

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flowerHold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.William Blake Sweet re:lease Inside my mind is a place for you to findAn unreserved room where love can freely bloom Hot Sands aka confounded crustaceans If you are …

Flower Beds

And so it is our day of toilour hands, the soilwhere sweat let rununder the sun In work, digress, settle downstreamearthbound, I dreamthoughts in dire needdesire to bleed I tire, withdraw, let slip my minda place I findto rest my headflower the bed The minute poem.The rules are simple:3 quatrains (or 4-line stanzas)8 syllables in …