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Caffeinated Contemplations (Free verse) by J.B. Manning
Why do the best poems Iâve written seem to flow too quickly through my
mind to record like undulating passages that wind through silent streets
of photogenic structures and lure the beast between fully suckling
breasts and wanting waves of wind blowing like water through broken
glass on a midsummer night and run run run like a run-on sentence that
seems to make no sense to anyone but me! I have to wonder what youâre
thinking now and then when I run away with your thoughts and dance in
your mind with the imagery that only I can really see from here. There
is no structure in the absence of relative thought no absence of
abstract in the attic where I store my thoughts and no question that you
and me are free to see whatever it is that this thing might be! Letâs
wander aimlessly through the corridors of someone elseâs mind in a
time when they are most in need of companions that they really cannot
see but feel with little effort when weâre there to pat them on the
shoulder and whisper encouraging words into there minds eye. When theyâ
re dreaming of the past that they never enjoyed in the first place
because they were too busy wishing theyâd done it all right the first
time as today passed away like a dying child that never saw the day when
it finally learned to say, itâs very first word! Let it flow! Let it
run like a river with no walls to stop itâs passion as it passes
through the forest and sets green to all the trees that feed from itâs
bosom and bust from pure delight at the sight that we take breathlessly
onto our lungs as we gasp no grasp at a dream that goes unseen for the
most of us and nothing ever seems real because the writers always steel
our thoughts when weâre thinking of something witty to say but havenâ
t the strength and run away to memories of what might have been if
Only
We
Had
Stayed!
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Weighted score: 5.422622
Overall Rank: 3045
Posted: August 21, 2003 3:25 PM PDT; Last modified: August 21, 2003 3:25 PM PDT
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