Genius and Insanity

Genius and insanity skip through life hand in hand
Grinning and dazzling each other with outrageous ideas
Loving the way others come around with shock and awe
Ask Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Edison and Robin Williams. 

Just a tiny few of my favorite inventors, philosophers and artists. 
Genius and Insanity rock our world; we cannot squelch them.
They are openly wild, weird and wonderful.
I chase both as they skip through life, hand in hand!

Sometimes catching them in a poem or on a canvas.
It is enough, it has always been enough.
You are crazy! My friends tell me.
Ultimate compliment, my genius muse replies.
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Wolf Avatar
August 8, 2022 at 6:10 PM
Seen so clearly in Robin Williams, genius and insanity can coexist for a while. Sooner or later, though, the bubble bursts. At least that's how it seems to me, as I'm neither a genius nor insane. ~ Still Happy, Somehow
Krutsinger Avatar
August 8, 2022 at 10:31 PM
I think it sometimes is never caught; anyway I am hoping.
Cheney Avatar
August 8, 2022 at 5:58 PM
Such an interesting point. The fine line which separates genius from insanity and how one is to know the difference sometimes. I say tip toe up to the genius line but try not to cross over. Tip toe just in case you slip over, maybe no one will notice.
Krutsinger Avatar
August 8, 2022 at 10:31 PM
I think we all cross the lines sometimes, but usually accidentally, wondering which side we are on.
Hankins Avatar
August 8, 2022 at 8:02 AM
I don't think you are crazy, Caren. You have the most vivid, creative mind, full of energy and pizzazz. A true genius, if you ask me, and you didn't!
Krutsinger Avatar
August 8, 2022 at 12:36 PM
Thank you my friend, I take a small bow and Trixie pushes me over and takes full credit.
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