THE BIG SHAKE

A mash up of manic musings!

The big shake

 

How weird!

Are we all like this?

Given a muckle cranial dunt   (muckle - big,  dunt - hit)

Rhymes torrent out

 

Awake in the wee small hours

After sleep, subconscious musings

Juggling sensory input

And then write - right on man!

 

A waterfall of words

Spout secrets, hidden

vomiting unbidden

from murky depths

lurking unwitting

erupting, spitting

into the dazzling

air of reality

 

To some

the outpouring of a manic mind

gives fright

but I’m learning fast

that we all can think like this!

although ..

most would say ‘god help us!’

 

words to order,

no notice required

Ideas of every ilk

Silk purse to sows ear

Some fear I’ve gone bananas!

 

Aldous Huxley was right

perhaps Arthur Koestler too

Both clever chaps

and perhaps, yes perhaps

 

I have somehow pushed open their

Doors of perception and roots of coincidence

……………..Or was it…………..

Doors of coincidence and roots of perception??

Freudian pish!

Is there nothing remotely nice

inside my head?

I hide titbits to tease the psychiatrists!

No inhibitions now!

As creative as hell

I can smell

a well,

of sickening sin,

expunging away

where the beast hell(d)  sway

after all 666 is just another number

 

I digress …..

I confess

What a mess!

but I miss 007

I miss the thrill of

Miss Moneypenny’s frustration

She’s taken,

shaken

not stirred

that old bird

but definitely not

‘taken’ in the biblical sense

by 007

 

Is it enticement

or entrapment?

When a spider spins

his silken snare

to lure the fly

into his lair

beware 007, Moneypenny!

 

Some try

But most don’t

To answer unanswerable questions

 

don’t even mention

PRIME NUMBERS

  

Reviews

[Lorry]

Well the next time I hear someone describe their piece as freeform, or channeled, i'll just stare at them blankly, say naw it isnae, and send them a link to this piece. That should put their gas at a peep.
Love the freedom of your thoughts, going where they want, ignoring no entry signs and driving on the wrong side up the motorway, refreshingly wild. :)

[Great Aunt Astri]

I say, when you are feeling manic, just go for it. Quite a creative flow here, in a free-falling sort of way. A lot to ponder on, and probably to act on. But it is a poem .. just the imagination running wild! Well done for writing it.

[alanwgraham]

Thanks Aunty! Yes, go with the flow was all I could do! I hesitated before posting but what the heck!
Regards,
Alan

[Great Aunt Astri]

keep flowing on!

[FJ Davis]

All you have is smart-a*s doubt.
Still, entertaining.

[alanwgraham]

I actually have bipolar disorder and this is an minute by minute record of the way I think when I am manic. Luckily I don't think this way too often. Most of my writing is fairly normal but some say quite imaginative.
Thanks for reading!
Alan

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this seems to go everywhere with no particular point of conclusion, and yet it does....an array of thoughts...those 2am, ones after the almost sleep, the mind driving itself insane...then the keys hit to get the words on paper...the flow of the moment and moments...memories compressed into a few stanzas---what we hold dear, what we hold onto because we need the crutch...
we need beliefs...and we need to start believing in ourselves that our words make perfect sense in the scheme of things...--it all matters, and we all matter...
even if we go to mass and wonder why---

j.

[alanwgraham]

Thanks Jacob. In my thankfully normal sane moments I hesitate to expose myself like this because there is no normal rational to these ramblings. Thanks for your patient thoughts!
regards,
Alan

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Free-falling gems of lines! Reminiscent of Ginsberg & the Beat poets, except for form. "I digress"- bless your digressions moving at brilliant warp speed- each one a shooting star..Stunning original content, form, flow and rhyme pattern."Is it enticement or entrapment?" Hmmm, a bit of both I think. Kudos!

[alanwgraham]

Thanks Annette. I'm glad i don't think like this all the time! In some fantastic way that manic adventure has loosened my creativite inhibitions.
Isn't life interesting!
Regards,
Alan

[CAPOLAVORO]

Now this is genuine reality. Who would have thought that with these play of words you could invoke awareness. What a pure bleed of words. Love it ;)

[alanwgraham]

Thanks for your kind words. This was written during a brief manic episode and represent my state of mind at that point. My normal writing is much more considered.
All the best,
Alan

[Tony Jordan]

I liked this a lot Alan. It feels good to break out of the rigidity once in a while, no eh? lol
I like the idea of this poetic smoothie which has been taken off the blender before all the lumps were 'ironed out'. The lumps make for braw chewing.
These are - to me - the seedlings of many potential writings that will sprout - or not - given time.
Nice one

[alanwgraham]

Thanks Tony. The lumpy smoothie was written a few years ago during a memorable bipolar manic weekend in Glasgow. I wrote non stop with no need for conscious thought. I have been a bit wary about depositing this raw rambling on WC so I'm glad you've found something in it.
Cheers,
Alan

[Tony Jordan]

I had a wee go at something similar when I was glue-sniffing in my early teens. Hoping to open those doors too but the writing tailed off after a few sentences when the Evo-stick carried me to fantastical lands.
I had a laugh reading them back some days later.
welcome A.

[Imorbid]

HaHa! Loved this piece! Just one thing, the fonts were distracting.

[alanwgraham]

Thanks. I mashed together a few different pieces and a big part of my feeling was - no rules! I don't normally feel that way.
Regards,
Alan