Confessions of a 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

[Thomas W Case]

Tremendous work. Powerful writing.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you so much, Thomas:)

[Relic]

I have problems sleeping because of it. lately, I've been up all night like Icarus. (wink) Sucks.
Love the poem, narrative, and your radio voice especially.

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Relic. Love when people read my words and love it even more when they listen in too:)

[Relic]

How can I not listen to a voice like yours. :)

[Pryde Foltz]

You will have me blushing:)

[Twilight]

No kidding, sugar.! One look at the title, and I soon started scrolling..! And, right again, I was darned well close to sticking my head in the sand; but enough about marriage (sweetness!). Now, for the review:

Actually, this covers more than compulsive thinking. It considers other aspects of thinking too.

Let's scroll down to verse two. "Superconducting in a cosmological ocean", brought to mind; our brains absorbing vast amounts of information - from an ocean of sources which are out there.

Much later on, "why the frown, why the sparks"; made me think of concentration. But, sparks can also represent illuminating realisations; for example. And, one of "your" frowns; can herald a frying pan moment.

"beep, beep, static beep". Er, a line from one of Bjork's old songs; or R2D2 is in the house.? More likely, dear; you kind of had robotic or computer-generated sounds in mind. In the context of such noises made by those devices, when performing their equivalent of "thinking"..?

"Self-identified smarty pants". Oh how you know me, honey; sigh..!

"I recommend rubber soles". Have you been taking advice from the Gambinos' again? I know they're good neighbours, but you know what happened to cousin Marv; when he agreed to their offer of a "concrete overcoat"? And, guess who sent me to fish him out again; you hon.! Anyway, I digress. But, not a bad review write-up from me; and this poem was pretty good too..!

✍️💌🤞

J (Twilight)

[Pryde Foltz]

Yes ... a very good review, indeed. Compulsive thinking and also perhaps thinking to highly of thinking. Descartes ... I think therefor I am ... if someone is thinking and someone is aware of that thinking ... then someone must exist. However ... we have to ease off on the thinking at time ... to be:)

[Dylan Macadham]

Overthinking is like Over-anything,
Tooooooo much leaves you sinking.
Good Write!
Dylan

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, Dylan:)

[D. Mansfield]

Great poem, thank youfor this

[Pryde Foltz]

Thank you, D:)

[Soren]

This is like raw free thought flowing and ebbing through the channels of the mind. It takes me inside where thoughts are generated and runs being diverted by obstacles but not stopped Most lovely

[Pryde Foltz]

Love where it took you, Thank you, Soren:)

[Neville]

Most impressive and I must say .. I like that much of your ink can be enjoyed more than one way .. The last several times I listened to spoken word on Vocaroo, the speaker sounded like an old embittered witch 😎👍

[Pryde Foltz]

Haha. Vocaroo is one of the reasons I started doing the recordings. My blog site has a little button you can push to get an AI voicing .. OMG ... it was awful. It was time to offer something a little warmer, methought. Thank you for listening in:)

[red93]

Ooh I love the Poem Pryde - you only have to say 'Icarus' and one immediately thinks of the Great Anglo-American Poet WH Auden. Really Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Pryde Foltz]

I had never read the poem until today. Although they do seem somewhat companion like, don't they? Thank you for turning me on to it. TBH ... when I think of Icarus ... I think of Daedelus and Hercules. Haha.

[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.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! You are welcome Pryde.

[Sami Khalil]

Young at heart perhaps.