Notes About The Poem

The main parts of a pin ball machine are:

Play field, Flipper, Plunger, Tilt sensors, Bumpers, Holes, Balls.

Pinballs

Pinballs

Flashing lights cacophonous torment
                silent blindness screams of nothing

Plunger lost in apathy comfortless striking void
		pistons firing on empty

Flippers halted in stagnant mid flight
		motionless surreal delusion

Sensors tilted upside down and further
		making no sense of no meaning

Bumpers like icy mountain’s thin air
		pick axe forgotten on the descent

Sink holes covered in quick sand
		vacuous craters enveloped madness

A ‘level’ play field and yet where are those balls
		of courage to tell them how I really felt?

09th August 2018-08-08


Written for the contest: ‘I wish I had the balls to tell them how I really felt’.
Sponsored by Line Gauthier
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Sharp Avatar
August 13, 2018 at 12:00 AM
Excellent writing, great imagery, a very compelling analogy.
Neumann Avatar
August 13, 2018 at 1:09 AM
Thank you Lawrence. Many wishes to you, Kai
Vaso Avatar
August 9, 2018 at 4:28 AM
Depression is horrible, I can only say, never let it be suffered alone, easy to say, hard to do, I know!
Neumann Avatar
August 9, 2018 at 4:31 AM
I am very much on the ball with it. Feeling good. Was a long journey, but love and also poetry have helped me a lot. Many wishes to you, Kai
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