There are times I can not get to sleep for the nagging words in my head screaming to be written down.
Oh Wretched Mind
Oh wretched mind allow sleep tonight
I need my rest before I can write
My hand is tired and my ink is low
Oh wretched mind please let me go
The lines keep forming inside my head
All I want to do is go to bed
I am afraid the words will elude
And with my mind they will collude
(C) copyright Kirk Thomas 2011.
Sandra Dodd
I identify but dont follow Londo's advice if you have certain dreams and a nosey housekeeper. I really like this one AND ALL YOUR POEMS
I identify but dont follow Londo's advice if you have certain dreams and a nosey housekeeper. I really like this one AND ALL YOUR POEMS
Susan Jarvis
Insomnia, the poet's dilemma, and you some it up so perfectly in your adeptly crafted verses.
Insomnia, the poet's dilemma, and you some it up so perfectly in your adeptly crafted verses.
rarebird
Really incredible!
Really incredible!
La Finita
Passionate, a real inspiration! Terrific!!
Passionate, a real inspiration! Terrific!!
Lynda Robson
Keep a notebook by your bed, another good write
Keep a notebook by your bed, another good write
narain, jay p.
It happens to all of us. Great poem.
It happens to all of us. Great poem.
Sandra Martyres
beautifully expressed Pendemic...this one resonates with me as well
beautifully expressed Pendemic...this one resonates with me as well
Fay Slimm
Ah - I can relate to this so much my friend. I too just have to get up and write at times.
Ah - I can relate to this so much my friend. I too just have to get up and write at times.
Jenny Gordon
Ah, you are all more prolific writers than I...for climbing 'tween the sheets only to be rooted out shortly thereafter, while annoying, is also rather fascinating to the selfish ego, which begins to feel accomplished for that the mind insisted on pouring forth more poetry....also seems I am scrambling half the time for time and paper to pen down fleeting beginnings of "poems"....I loved this for how very well you expressed it...quite enjoyable!
Ah, you are all more prolific writers than I...for climbing 'tween the sheets only to be rooted out shortly thereafter, while annoying, is also rather fascinating to the selfish ego, which begins to feel accomplished for that the mind insisted on pouring forth more poetry....also seems I am scrambling half the time for time and paper to pen down fleeting beginnings of "poems"....I loved this for how very well you expressed it...quite enjoyable!
Sylvia Marquetta
Nice write, you have described this so well in these two verse. I can relate.
Nice write, you have described this so well in these two verse. I can relate.
tenderpoison
if I write too much, sometimes, my mind keeps spinning out metaphor and prose - it's very irritating when I have other things to do - or a discipline children in rhyme and they laugh at me :)
if I write too much, sometimes, my mind keeps spinning out metaphor and prose - it's very irritating when I have other things to do - or a discipline children in rhyme and they laugh at me :)
Yes, sometimes I find myself writing them down and in the morning I am sad to realize, I only dreamed I was writing them. However real the words were at the time, they're gone forever then. The writer's lament, lol.