Life Less Ordinary.
Key-stone of conformity
hides in banality.
Trite persuasion thinks in a straight
formal line.
Break with the staid
and skin peels back from laced mind,
Lets in unrestraint,
and stretches credulity.
Breach convention
and back-to-front insight
will violate
customary thought,
and turn mental somersaults
with sideways use.
Peer squint-eyed with curiosity,
and poetic muse
welcomes,
infuses and revitalises used
well-trodden
paths of orthodox views.
Sail out of the usual
in oddity's rainbowed sea,
bathe in freedom,
peruse in Sphynx-like style
and decide
on life less ordinary.
Leave safe-shore solidity,
sound down
the slightly crooked
lateral look,
adopt a mind-set of original
backsidedness,
and feel
feet leaving the ground.
Mmm- love the expression: a mind-set of original backsidedness! Well turned looks at breaking with convention - like it. And your needlepoint looks gr8! x
As you so often do in your wonderful poetry, Fay, you often transcend the shackles of ordinary life to take the reader on a wonderful journey through your vivid and lively imagination. You are one of the most exceptional of all the internet poets! Carl.
and you are just the poet to breach convention and come up with all your highly imaginative poems. Your creativity knows no bounds and this poem is another special write.
A real magical write....I take your advice and hope I can feel my "Feet leaving the ground"
Such sage advice, Fay. I adore; ' Break with staid and skin peels back from the mind' - superb!
Only poetry can make even less ordinary in life very interesting and make mind soar high to even sublimity! That is the magic power of poet!
I love all your magical poems for its simplicity and the depth too. Also my gratitude for all your valuable comments on my scribblings.