Confessions of Compulsive-Think Ostrich

Sometimes you just gotta stick up your noggin ..

Confessions of a Compulsive-Thinking Ostrich

In this episode, we take a poetic look at compulsive thinking and the emotional static it can cause. Should we just stick out head in the sand and clear the thoughts with silent noise; or can we find healing and balance and aim higher but together. Join me as I discuss enlightenment and voice the Poems Wrinkled and Wired, the Ostrich and the Lion, and Brave Aviator.

As always for those of you who prefer to read, there is also a poem posted below; just keep on scrolling.

Wrinkled and Wired

intelligence

a wrinkled forehead

ripples through a briny pond

awash in a lake of acetylcholine

waves and wells

drowning in grey matter

superconducting

in a cosmological

spacetime ocean

convergence

yes, we agree

you must be right

because otherwise

I'd be wrong

divergence 

let's just concur to dis-occur

I can't afford the loss of quotient points

keep my membership

among the high brow, high-wired

bespectacled and bemused

self-identified smarty pants

I recommend rubber soles

beneath your wing tips, Icarus

that way you stay grounded

avoid electrocution

why the frown … 

why the sparks …

concentration

consternation

remembrance

don't you like to think

beep, beep, static, beep

Wrinkled and Wired is published Domesticate the Heavens. The Ostrich and Lion is posted in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels. Brave Aviator is published in Strays. Please visit my blog to further explore the accompanying photos and essay, some bonus poetry, and keep up-to-date with all my writing. 

Longer works can be found on the my amazon page.

Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

I like to think that people who contemplate think different. Those who face obstacles head on are not like ostriches. We can all be conductors of our band.
Very deep in thinking terms.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Sami:)

I cannot disagree but poor l'il old me has a tendency to create her own struggles based entirely in thought.