Wandering and Wondering...

Wandering and wondering through

A wild world of sorrow and joy

Arriving inside the truth of a few

A mild swirl of marrow and noise

 

Traveling up and floating on down

A mountain of trembling, never-ending sound

Quiet now there is nobody around

Your thoughts are all upon uneven and turbulent

 Ground

 

Listen to the winds of intensified, absolute pure

 Feeling

Swelling all the way up and through

The white paint of a textured

Ceiling

Can you manifest a thought in two

Certain criteria’s?

A no nonsense interesting

And fragrant idea?

 

Or will you give up hope

And squash yourself into the slope

Of the backside hills

Lost forever in the unfortunate wills

 

Of all the others

Sisters/brothers

Fathers/mothers

 

All the constants in control

Of creating real prose

Poetry? Who Knows?

 

Words for certain

And I draw this long heavy draping 

 Burgundy colored curtain

And I fall asleep forever.

 

(date written unknown)

Copyright 2015 Todd R. Joslyn

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[-Scribe in Style-]

An exceptional double piece. I love the antithetical pattern in which you have written, the idea of black and white, or picking a side if you like. It is very well balanced.
Thanks for sharing. Great work
A

[AaronFreitas]

Awesome work Todd! I was going to quote a stanza I really liked but there were just too many. Great piece my friend :)

[dan]

Todd, This piece just completely BURSTS with imagery, some subtle but most vibrant and vivid. One stanza in the middle section seems to indicate your reliance/dependence on the influence/opinions of others, family. At the end you seem to indicate that what you are writing may be futile, diluted...devoid of importance. A very plaintive write, VERY well done! take care...dan

[Coyote Poetry]

Poetry and writing had saved my life.
"Words for certain
And I draw this long heavy draping
Burgundy colored curtain
And I fall asleep forever."
Life ain't easy. Some of had learn. We must write and state our opinions. We must stand for something. Powerful and good words this morning. Made me think.
Coyote

[Yellow Butterfly]

This was quite an hypnotic read.... intriguing and left me...... wandering....


I love that it doesn't have a title..... no need to state the obvious....

I also like the edginess .....