Addled Poems - Poems about Addled

the dreaded blank page silent voice listening pensive quill awaits...

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Window dressings pasted tightly moisture frames their presence barely lit by cigarettes passing outside in while I sit watching the random dance of minions scattered strains of sound music plays somewhere, I can’t.... ...my head longs for sleep now, childlike, fevered presence roars cool hands wipe away fear alone with myself only lonely I don’t feel well...scattered causal thoughts shrug across my addled...

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Restlessness, impulsiveness, loquaciousness, compulsiveness, distracted inattentiveness and tangent railway tracks. Complexities, anxieties and dopamine deficiencies. Instant gratification please, relief for my synapse. Procrastination, wired sensation, biochemical frustration, forget to take my medication. Frontal lobe relapse. Rapid heartbeat, fidgety feet, hypervigilant, unable to sleep, central nervous system freak. Neurological cracks....

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Numpty Dumpty sat on a wall, his brain, addled. Not thinking, he turned and had a fall, in the King's castle courtyard he puddled. All the Kings men on horses saddled, got off their steeds and in Humpty dabbled. One took his coat, well it was silver, the rest took his bits, thinking themselves clever in trying to put Humpty...

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(to be read out loud) I'll eat the nibble naggle nooky nickel nipple nappy mum mum mum I'll chew your gooble gobble giggle gaggle gimpy grampa's gum gum gum. I'll call the wimpy wappy wiggle waggle wacky wobble wum wum wum I'll drink the wiggin' wimple whoopy whacker wookie worker's rum rum rum. Woo wow wee wah Geegaw mee mah Hee haw hoo har hey hey...

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time don't deny, the world awry, in sadness struggles on, the addled brains, accursed. remains, till no one knows the why. Don...

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Sweet pain within the soul to be around peeps assorted… Seems would never be filled with the heart unloved… It makes no odds if I heed you with some desire… Making a point I turn up to be a dark outsider… Unalike way you would understand the untold tale… I certitude your heart not to be cold as “storm hail”… In...

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Submitted for contest: INSIDE MY HEAD - for "OLD" poets only - ; September 14, 2015 Haibun---Old Minds confusion, dream, how i feel, memory, nostalgia, MY MIND IS ADDLED My senior mind is game to rhyme And to find those lost thoughts of mine It tries to give a recount to all times forgot My mind sparks faint...

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This that addles the brain is not of opium or some such stuff It has a special recipe : Stardust and cuckoo eggs slowcooked in the bile that rose in Cain flavored with Phoenician almonds chilled in the eyes of the subSaharan mom holding close her starving child in vain So that one grazing lazily undismayed by slaughter to right and left dreams of...

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