The Madman's Lament
Open wide and
hide inside
I can't abide
this shattered
life.
The strife
The pain
The insane nights
that shatter dawns
eternal light
My happy dream
seems silly now
in light of mercy’s
boorish joke
She spoke a word
and left me dry
Absurd, alone
to wonder why
But truth be told
I do not care
These uncouth
jokes and life unfair
Are symptoms of a
foolish dream
I've conjured up
within a scream
And stifled though
this howl maybe,
it holds a grain
of sanity
That just may save
me in the end from
what they tell
me is pretend.
Chaos1214
Thus, the upside, with a little tweaking, the desperate realm of madness can be remade into an amusing, little, fly-by-night utopia
Thus, the upside, with a little tweaking, the desperate realm of madness can be remade into an amusing, little, fly-by-night utopia
eleanor prince
How very true. Such skill is remarkable and your poem leaves one agreeing and thinking some more...
How very true. Such skill is remarkable and your poem leaves one agreeing and thinking some more...
Munia Khan
This amazing work is worthy of a thousand reads!Anyone would happily wish to be a madman in order to lament this way.Superbly done Patrick.
This amazing work is worthy of a thousand reads!Anyone would happily wish to be a madman in order to lament this way.Superbly done Patrick.
Don
Nicely done. Each line skillfully lurches me to the next one. What a ride.
Nicely done. Each line skillfully lurches me to the next one. What a ride.
Raj Arumugam
this is truly very absorbing and arresting - the thought and language and imagery all work so smoothly together to produce a poem of beauty, pain and power...
this is truly very absorbing and arresting - the thought and language and imagery all work so smoothly together to produce a poem of beauty, pain and power...
stevenstirk
I really clever flowing rhyming write, which I much enjoyed.
I really clever flowing rhyming write, which I much enjoyed.
kath
Wow Patrick. This crazy world is enough to break the strongest of hearts. But to stumble across a poem as shockingly good as this is like finding a diamond in a billion grains of sand. Wonderful, bookmarked work. kath xxx
Wow Patrick. This crazy world is enough to break the strongest of hearts. But to stumble across a poem as shockingly good as this is like finding a diamond in a billion grains of sand. Wonderful, bookmarked work. kath xxx
Awesome. Wow. You write superbly. If we could make a sonneteer of you, how marvelous then would poetry be? La, I don't know how you do it, but this is deliciously rich with reality expressed wonderfully with exceptional metaphors and imagery. I am impressed. Fantastic.