An excursion into nostalgia, catatonia riding alone
Dysphoria felt through my aching bones
Unable to answer the old and battered phone
torment of my youth, an age old disease
This I did fear would control me, kill the monkey in
my thinking tree, micros that bleed my mind
torture to my soul, riding into the future blind
On golden flats I rode, tainted mind to decode
fear driven as that's the place life reloads
This too I did know to take me into my childhood,
and bring out the boy nude, eluding a drama new
An active mind I so argued to be my due
Seclusion I understood would kill the monkey
in my thinking tree, take me back a thousand years
An active mind so there should be my plea
This I did do to impede my journey into the unknown
Writing poetry in my alone moments
Dead and living friends I drew from unchallenged
An active mind did I there manage to free
And so poetry I wrote with glee
Author notes
An active mind keeps the body sound.
In a list
A contest entry
- What makes you happy? by Judith Chandler.
525 points, ended September 19, 2008, 12 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - CELEBRATING POETRY AND POETS- ONE-DAY competition, "PREVIOUSLY WRITTEN" WORK ONLY by Vera Rich.
6000 points, ended November 26, 2008, 127 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Show me your winners (PREWRITES ONLY) by crazymomma.
400 points, ended December 5, 98 entries
• next poem in this contest, • Add to finalists list, or remove from contest
Any thoughts I'll much appreciate
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Thank you for entering my "Celebrating Poetry and Poets" competition.Your entry is rather difficult for me to read - but I am placing it on my short list for further consideration. Please, if you can, change the colour-scheme to black typing on a white or very pale pastel ground - as that format is least painful to my rather poor sight - and I do want to be able to appreciate your work properly. (It would be helpful, too, if when you have changed it, you would send me an IM message to say that you have done so!)
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Definately a well deserved Gold trophy for this write. A very thought provoking write
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I enjoyed this so much and it's what I would wish for myself in similar circumstances. I like the image of the monkey in the thinking tree as as the mention of dead and living friends.
Thank you for this very reflective entry in my contest.
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