08 Oct 2021 8 Comments
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image from pixabay.
Ear worm,
What is this torture I fear
Around the world for help I sweep
Driving me to madness I weep
This cacophony in my ear
Ramping my madness up a gear
It eats away my sanity
Please rescue me, help me be free
The music worm attacks my brain
Repeating, making mental pain
Oh! smite this ear worm, smite me!
This is part of Ronovan Writes Décima Poetry Challenge Prompt .
18 Aug 2021 5 Comments
in humour, inspiration, One liner Wednesday Tags: comedy, madness
A tip of the hat to Dale at The Return Of The Internet Nobody and his entries for the alternative dictionary.
CANTILEVER. PACE LEVER ON A MECHANICAL HORSE?
This is part of LindaGHill’s One-Liner Wednesday.
19 Jul 2021 33 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Fear, madness, Restrictions
This is part of Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
a note of caution
don’t send the wrong message out
rona has not gone
hiding in the shadows still
silent and ready to pounce.
My reaction to today’s easing of restrictions, with numbers rising I feeling it’s at best foolhardy at worst total madness.
Stay safe, stay well. 💜
07 Jul 2021 7 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, humour, Poems, Ronovanwrites Tags: Bad Joke, government, madness, Miss Government, Rules
Parliament still leads the dance
Question is should masks stay or go.
They’re also stopping lateral flow.
Go into work now take a chance.
Coughs on transport get sideways glance.
No longer heed the Delta strain
Rishi Sunak is out for gain.
So rules will be relaxed we smile.
As confusion reigns all the while.
As our safety goes down the drain !
This is my entry for Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Décima. I have link my Décima to my Ronovanwrite’s Weekly Haiku Challenge.
10 Mar 2021 18 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, Depression, Ronovanwrites, sadness Tags: hopelessness, lost hope., madness, Mental health
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Here I’m trapped in this lonely place
Tied and bound to dance to their tune.
Hope gone, a soldier of fortune.
It’s me, not you here at God’s grace.
Fear creeping at relentless pace.
Morphious brought as injection.
This place spreads dread as infection.
Keys jangle in the dead of night.
Wings being clipped no hope of flight.
Give out the pills like confection.
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08 Mar 2021 11 Comments
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A mist fills my head
With with the madness of a fool.
Eyes closed hope is dead.
29 Jan 2021 19 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Depression Tags: Depression, hopelessness, madness
6 years ago I visited a friend in a psychiatric unit : One wall was decorated with the Tree of Hope logo. This is what I saw and felt.
Tree of hope
Is this a joke
Lost souls wandering
Bored staff pondering.
Angry women strutting
Locked door are shutting
Tempers are fraying.
Any point in praying?
One step forward three back .
Covers for the care they lack.
Man shouting he needs his phone
His eyes ask will he find his way home
Tree of hope
Is this a joke
Lost souls wandering
Bored staff pondering.
*******
I wander if that unit has improved in six years. I doubt it … Especially not now with Covid.
29 Jan 2021 22 Comments
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Hopelessness Acrostic.
Hope left with not even a goodbye
Off it went regardless of my cry
Paralyised with fear unable to fly.
Ever ready to surround me
Loneliness grabbed me so I could not flee
Eager to entrap me in it’s hold
Sinister horror surrounds me whole
Slipping ever further from reality
Never knowing if ever again I will be free
Endless questions beset my mind
Smothering me with hopelessness unkind
Sinking deep into the abyss, lost alone death would be bliss.
18 Dec 2020 19 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, Depression, feeling unwell, Ronovanwrites, sadness Tags: Insanity, madness, Mental health
The gift of madness.
Corridors full of empty souls
Dancing but their spirits won’t lift.
Sanity is not ours to gift
Lost forever all youthful goals
Here hope is gone it downhill rolls.
Screaming inside, making no sound
Dancing in circles round and round.
Foresake all hope of leaving here.
Keeping guard, surrounded by fear.
We’re all lost never to be found.
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18 Nov 2020 16 Comments
in #Haiku, #Senryu, #Haiga, #Tanka, #Tanka Prose, #micropoetry, #poetry, #5lines, #Haibun, #Prose, #CinquainPoetry, #Etheree, #Nonet, #Shadorma, #Gogyoka, Décima, Depression, Poems, rant, Ronovanwrites Tags: Ebb, Flow, madness, Sleep
Welcome to the Décima Poetry Challenge. Each week we’ll be attempting a Décima, also known as an Espinela, poem.
If you don’t know how to write a Décima, click HERE to go to a post on How to Write an Espinela or Décima Poem.
You may, if you wish, make some kind of link between the Haiku Challenge prompt .Ebb and Flow and Sleep.
The two challenges are separate but can be combined if we choose to do so.
Tides of Madness
The tides of madness ebb and flow
Restlessness only calmed by sleep.
The waking hours make me weep.
Dark seasons like days of shadow.
Seeds of darkling around me grow.
Fears inside me grow and recede.
Monsters use my terror as feed.
Madness has me held as captive.
Rise and fall, trapped, no more to give.
Madness eats my soul and I bleed
The above painting is work of Dorothea Tanning it is called The Madness of Doors.
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