»
Archives
»
Open Poetry #7
»
Obsessions
| Open Poetry #7 |
|
Obsessions |
|
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart 
|
Obsessions Oh God, the challenge has been thrown with a wave of derisiveness: are you obsessed by this thing called Poetry? I decried "NO, I am not obsessed," thinking clearly of attic rooms or flats inhabited by wild-eyed manics who will not eat or sleep but are incoherent in all 'cept the drive to write, write, write… It is only 2:22 a.m. and I am not awakened by my muse but instead by a throbbing toothache and only after the hygenic means of retrieving relief does my muse return to taunt me: are you obsessed yet? So I take not pen and paper but just the Mother's Day gift of book of poems and thinking just to read, take myself off to the bowels of my home & settle in to theorize on someone else's words, not mine. Are you Obsessed yet? Fleetingly, the minutes I've spent, having now searched for pen and paper, turned into hours of would-be papered content of prose and poetry & I am not obsessed with sharing the knowledge of my muses' laughing at anyone but me as my pen scratches incessantly to quell this itch. But if I chance to look up at the clock to see that more than two hours have disappeared into black and white, then I am NOT obsessed. Not yet. ©KRJ 13 May 2000 Sunshine Look, then, into thine heart, and write ~~~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
||
| © Copyright 2000 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved | |||
|
Kit McCallum
Administrator
Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Well Sunshine ... Obsessed or not ... I think I'm commenting on your 4th or 5th poem this morning, and I'm enjoying it tremendously. So please continue to "write ... write ... write"!!! Loved this, Best wishes, /Kit |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Ah Kit, perhaps this should have been a simple posting of four in row...for this is indeed how my day has started! Cheers, Sunshine! |
||
|
netswan Senior Member
since 2000-03-28
Posts 1369Washington |
You have got to be kidding -- staying up late - not going to bed - using toothaches as excuses to write and read poems. Blaming Mother Muse for this not getting any sleep. Gee sunshine is 5:15 am here ------and I ain't been asleep hahahha GREAT poem --------addiction We could run an online, online poetry addiction forum -----) netswan |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You're on, netswan...thanks! |
||
|
Aimster Member Elite
since 2000-02-19
Posts 4297Charlotte, NC |
sunshine-- i really ejoyed reading this. i liked the style u used. i guess i am obbssessed with writing too (just a little lol) maybe we should take netswan up on her offer  take care, great poem!!amy  ~Live today as though it were your last but prepare for tomorrow as though it were here~ |
||
|
Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
Sunshine, this seems to be a true nature of poets that you are depicting here. When I wake up, I think of writing, While I get to work, I think of writing, When I get back from work, I think of writing, When I write, I think of writing. I don't know why this so true, Even when my eyes sleep, I still think of writing, Nightmare or lovely dreams, Its poetry, as it seems, Tales of love, despair, happiness and strife, To write poems and stories I do strive... Sincere regards, Sudhir. Life is like a painting, That in an art gallery is left hanging, Though many come just to look at it, A very few actually come to enjoy it. |
||
|
Beki Senior Member
since 1999-09-15
Posts 1569Newport Beach, CA, USA |
boy do I relate! But I always say it is my PASSION, not an obsession {smile} |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Sudhir, thank you for your kind additions to a feeling shared by all here... Beki, some days obsessions take over passions...{~,^} and we all relate...thank you... |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Whoops, Amy, I missed responding to you. Feel free to let netswan know you are taking her up on her offer...{~,^} |
||
|
Denise
Moderator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
Well spoken, Sunshine! Denise |
||
|
RainbowGirl Member Elite
since 1999-07-31
Posts 3023United Kingdom |
Try a clove Sunsine, or failing that try keeping some cognac on the sore tooth, can't say it helps the pain but it sure numbs the feelings...*g*...and it all else fails, just drink the cognac and you'll fall into bed anyway.. HUSG |
||
|
Elizabeth Santos Member Rara Avis
since 1999-11-08
Posts 9269Pennsylvania |
Oh, This was wonderful! Now I see why my family gets so impatient with me! This is it! And I would never call it an obsession. Fishing is an obsession. Poetry is a frame of mind. Love it! Liz |
||
|
Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
denise, RG, Elizabeth, you know, I really don't mind my obsession...I just wish I had more time...and were independently wealthy to indulge myself...LOL...thank you!!! [RG, the cognac works...] |
||
|
|
⇧ top of page ⇧ |
|
| All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format. | ||
