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Dark Poetry #1

Untitled (it's a poem about ADD...)

Buzzygirl
Junior Member

since 1999-09-11

Posts 42
St. Paul, MN USA

0 posted 1999-09-20 07:13 PM

I never had a title for this one, but I wrote it when I learned I had Attention Deficit Disorder. ...
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A tremulous moaning
from the strained synapses;
The skittering blips, continuity
lapses...
...should I start to clean this?
Is it a mess? or
should I thank the stars above
that I've been so blessed?

There’s little that’s good
about such energy
if you can’t find a way
to use it productively

My mind’s a crystal glass at best:
sparkling, lucid, a lovely prize-
At its worst, it's like a foreign body
that’s lodged itself into my eyes;
a deck stacked against me
in every test,
the basket over the light
I’ve come to despise...

This clock is ticking,
this candle is flickering,
saying get control of the reins
before past the prime:
For I want just a chance to
reveal the mind;
and not burn it out
before my time

1/97

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

1 posted 1999-09-21 07:37 AM

This is a gripping poem, Buzzy,
I absolutely love the third stanza:

My mind’s a crystal glass at best:
sparkling, lucid, a lovely prize-
At its worst, it's like a foreign body
that’s lodged itself into my eyes;

Truly wonderful work.

------------------
Michael Anderson

And so, being young and dipt in folly
I fell in love with melancholy,
But dreams - of those who dream as I,
Aspiringly, are damned, and die:

EAP

JennyLee
Senior Member

since 1999-09-01

Posts 1461
Northwestern, NJ.

2 posted 1999-09-21 07:39 AM

I agree with Micheal..
the third stanza is aslo my favorite.
Great work...really!!!

Jenny

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