Christopher Delegans Poet Lyric

Logic in Mist

I sat down with a notebook
A soft buzz in my head
Words were there
Then slipped away
Like smoke through fingers
Disappearing into thin air

Ideas floated just out of reach
Like clouds in a sky too bright
Drifting…
Never landing…

The pen hovered, touching the paper
Then the ink ran
Like a dream fading at dawn

I tried to grasp
A thought or spark
It unraveled…
A tangled thread of meaning
Too fine to trace

I laughed, maybe too loud
Wondering if the silence
Had more to say
Than the words I could not find

The clock ticked slowly
Time stretched like elastic
Nothing stuck
Nothing anchored

I stared at the page
Waiting for the wind
To bring the words back
But they lingered in the mist…
A flock of birds
Just out of sight
Beyond the reach
Of this hazy morning

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Hilda Greenhough April 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM Thanks for nothing, but please understand that I mean this in a positive way. When one can write an excellent poem about a difficulty, he has certainly achieved victory. I'm enchanted. Christopher Delegans April 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM Thanks, Hilda. That's very nice of you to say. Appreciate you reading and commenting.