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Are you Crazy?...

A thought occurred

Then writhed in the trap

Caught by simple focus

Where it came from I could not say

Begging for release

Kneeling in supplication

Prisoner of the master-mind

Acknowledging the futility

Of resistance

Paroled in good faith

It lanquishes

On a divan of briars

I see it each time I pass

Then I promptly forget it

Importance is a matter

Of perspective

I hear it calling me

Everytime I slink by

Maybe someday

It will go back where it came from

— Geezer, Jan 21, 2010

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Region, Country: New York State - USA, USA

Favorite Poets: Poe, Emily Dickenson, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, and many of the poets here at Neopoet.

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Seren

Seren

16 years 4 months ago

Gee I am loved this one its

Gee I loved this one its Obscure ... but I like it ... I will be back later tonight its dinner time here so I am being hunted to the table lol love and biggest hugs Jayne x x x x
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 4 months ago

Oscurity...

It was meant to portray an obsession. I watched a program on hoarders, and the difficulty they have in throwing things away. There was a woman on this program, that knew she was ruining her family's life by keeping things that anyone else would throw away. But she couldn't stop! She would resolve many times to throw away all the clutter, and get her family and life back together, but she always failed. The thought that she might need that one thing she threw away as soon as she got rid of it, kept her from throwing anything away! She knew that it was not a good thing, but the thought was always there. She had no idea, what made her like this. Just suddenly she couldn't throw things away. ~ Lotta love and higgest bugs, ~ Gee
Seren

Seren

16 years 4 months ago

Thank you for the

Thank you for the explanation Gee ... on a reread it does come across as different ... this one for me needed time to soak in ,... sometimes I on one read I am immersed sometimes they need to soak love and biggest hugs Jayne x x x x
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 4 months ago

"Prisoner of the master-mind"

"Prisoner of the master-mind" Dear Mr master mind, now mind there are things you oughtn't to know like the briar patch's great big festering toe and the frog in the soup you know, what the Tar Baby said we know, but the rabbit wouldn't let it go he battered and bashed till he stuck so go on past that load of muck. (Uncle Remus) A funny little thought of yours Sir Gee you have been hallucinating or was it something, or was it not something or was it? Like the coming and going of sunlight, glanced light on things otherwise unseen in corners and crannies, like dreamed things lost, lit up for a moment and in your case(?) frightening, prickly, shh!! sneak past, but if not take the bull-by-the-horns, and see what happens to you as you turn over and over and over the thought in your masterful head and fall back into bed. Enough said. Thought provoking dear Sir geezer good, we need lots of those masterful minds in the King(Queen) dom of Noepoet land. I give you my hand to kiss, not the orse, just this! Ann hiding behind a mountain. Love to you, did this one puzzle your wife?
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 4 months ago

Yup!

Wendy didn't get it at first. But as I said to Seren, It is about obsession[s] After watching a program about people that have obsessive/compulsive disorder, the thought came to me that I should do a poem about it! And I just couldn't stop thinking about it, until I wrote this poem! LOL Kissing your hand, that is offered from behind the mountain,~ Sir Gee.
DawningDaytripper

DawningDaytripper

16 years 4 months ago

Howdy Gee, Hoarders. I have

Howdy Gee, Hoarders. I have been watching that. I have known a few, others that just lived in filth. And not one of them would have picked it, they were just too stuck to move past it. I can understand that. I can understand your poem. I can also see how it relates with sanity in general. Most of the time it is some borderline disorder that just peeps in occasionaly. I suggest adding the term Borderline somewhere. Could convey alot in a very little. But honestly its all good, so I don't know where. lol Julie D.D.
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 4 months ago

creating small impossible

creating small impossible creatures with magic, some call it poetry, I certainly do, Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 4 months ago

Some call it poetry...

Thanks Jess, If you call it poetry, I will agree with you. I don't argue with elves. You always cheer me, Thanks, ~ Gee
Kailashana

Kailashana

16 years 4 months ago

That program is addicting…

That program is addicting... I don't want to watch it, but I can't turn it off, wanting to see how or if it is resolved. I had no idea until I watched the program. I admidt it: I ave a poem fetish, simply can't throw any of them away, so the universe loses them in cyberspace. ;-) Gee, your poem addresses & speaks of the underpinning to all our foibles... who minds the mastermind? THe person we think we are or the person we create by our surroundings? Nice work. ~A
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 4 months ago

Programing...

We are programmed by the master-mind, sometimes it gets a glitch. Our brain is often referred to as a computer, and I guess it is. I would venture to say that we are a product of all the things that are put into that computer. Like any computer, what is put in, how it is put in, and where, makes us what we are. Thank you, ~ Gee
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 4 months ago

Obsession...

I have stopped trying to figure the reasons for the things I write until someone asks. Then is the time for reflection. Many times I don't even have a clue until then. Killer is one of the few things I write about, that I have a clear picture of. The things that tic me off. Even then, I sometimes don't know why certain things piss me off, until I analyze them. Thanks, ~ Gee
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hardcorechick28

16 years 4 months ago

i agree

I never analyze my writing or what caused me to do it until afterwards most times. Unless there is a specific reason for it. Some are just for fun and some are because things piss me off and the only way I can let it out is in writing. Talk soon