Dayight Savings

...having fun...

Daylight Savings

 

I met an empty-headed poet

last night,

all his metaphors escaped

onto a page in time,

an hour’s small space,

leaving him dull witted

boring

and scratching his head.

I looked in the mirror,

saw the man was me,

frowned,

then laughed

and went back to bed.

 

Aztec Warrior/redzone  3.12.2017

Author's Note

....thanks for reading.... and please, don't wake me up...
captcha: unsunken??? okay, whatever!!!

Reviews

[Papaya]

lol. :)
You've already bounced back sharp as ever!

[Lydia Shutter]

Laughing here....Curt, you are certainly not dull witted or boring. I think we all wrote the most magnificent poem in that hour we lost and when we lost the 60 minutes, the words flew into the netherworld with them! Smiling here. Lydi**

[Diamond]

Lovely write. I happened to write about the same thing when the daylight saving started. I enjoyed reading your poem when it shifted back.

[redzone]

thank you Queen II, glad you got here on time... er.. lol... and thanks for the comment...

[D Connolly]

LOL, I was just musing yesterday about how young scholars find a dead writer's journal or something and study it to write their thesis on, and wondering how the writer would feel about it... Speaking for myself, one half of me would be screaming, "How DARE you look at my personal writings and try to piece me apart with a dull essay?! Grrrrrr!" But then the other half is howling, "LOVE MEEEEE!!!" I think we have to be dead to enjoy the perks of being a well known writer

[redzone]

hi Dani, welcome to the poets corner of lamenting our infamousness... lol.. the funny thing is, the thing is I don't think most of us care about awards as much as it would be nice to be recognized through many people reading what we write... to be read... how many poets go and put together chap books or self published poetry books and still only have a few hundred read them...

anyway, you are in good company with your visit to this conversation... thank you...

[D Connolly]

Yeah, I was eating dinner as I was thinking about it, and almost choked to death on my spaghetti laughing at how ridiculous I am LOL! Have fun catching up on your sleep

[redzone]

zzzzzzzzzzzz... what?? hello... who's there??? never mind... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

lol hi Dani...

[andrew mitchell]

It was the hour of the finest writings lost. The rest of the poem read like me lol sad to say.

[redzone]

I know Andrew... all the poems that would have made up a book and win the poet laureate and made Whitman and Neruda move over... oh well...

but if like you, I am in good company... thank you...

[andrew mitchell]

Don't you just hate it when they have not discovered us yet, how can we accept these awards! :-)

[redzone]

I think we have to be dead in order to get these awards.. so we never do get to accept them... lol...

[redzone]

somehow it is our death that allows them to find us, read what we have written and then give us awards... such is the life of a poet...

[andrew mitchell]

The dead poet's society!

[redzone]

lol.. exactly!!!

[Einstein Noodle]

well................... perhaps when we go back to fall back hours there will be a treasure trove in the hour missing!
E.
ps sure does take a while to get use to the new time doesn't it!?

[redzone]

I know E and I was having a hard time with what day it was and now... where am I E??? can you help a fellow out???

thanks man for your words and visit, you are always welcome here... no matter what day or hour... ;0)

[Einstein Noodle]

why thank you sir ..and i will take you up on that ... at first i thought you had written a poem dedicated to me!! ;))))

[redzone]

you too huh.. are we in a twilight zone story here E??? I can envision Rod Stirling introducing a story about two gents, lost in that hour of time somewhere out there ... it ends with them both realizing there is NOTHING out there... OMG ... ;0)

[Einstein Noodle]

sounds like a collab in the making ...or perhaps nothing in there!!!! aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!

[aLittlePain]

Haha.... very nice Curt! Catching that hour once it's rudely whipped away, we know it's coming but it's like the disruptive child in class :)

I agree with j, you never lose your touch my friend. R xo

[redzone]

wait, I was that disruptive child in class... uhho... ;0) but it is like americans that arrogant lot who think they rule the world and can change time.. the unruly child doesn't want to rule just make people laugh with his/her antics...

your are too kind Rach and I thank you for your comments.. always

[Kelly Scheppers]

My captchas NEVER make any sense, Curt!!

This reminds me of my night...I tossed and turned so much, I thought I was going to fall out of bed. I hate losing an hour - don't you? At least you have a poem to show for it now! ; )

[redzone]

I KNOW what is up with these captchas anyway??!! sheeesh... wait, I think I see your poem, but what the h is it doing way over here?? you must have hit your head when you fell out of bed... I will send it back to you... now go get some rest... and Kelly, thank you for the really nice comment and for the visit...

[Kelly Scheppers]

...my pleasure, Curt! Lol, I think I found that hour I lost!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

that was only a dream, Curt. You will never lose your touch...but go ahead and get some more sleep...you will wake bright eyed and minded as usual.
j.

[redzone]

don't know Jacob, that hour mined my mind and it is still empty... a wide awake empty head ... ot very pretty, nope... but I thank you for the encouraging words and if I read more of your metaphors I am sure I will be okay again...

always good to have you stop by Jacob..