The Precipice

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David Walker

Is it insane to want to watch your step, to purposefully plant a foot? Must one’s eyes always be downcast, if not pierced or piercing are we lost? leaves fall color flees we stand clothed but bare before the storm across a distant lake the light shimmers like mercury under glass the sky larger than the landscape lays down tumble weeds of cloud tripping across a buried morass of roots the beauty under foot screams for its share of gratuitous attention floriforms of fungus blooms resplendent in silence static and maudlin is the eye Somehow, I think sanity is not all it’s cracked up to be. First Published by Five Poetry Magazine January 2014

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Carrie Richards

Date: 3/17/2015 8:51:00 PM

Ps......and a big thanks for the approval in the 3-line contest!!!! :)

Carrie Richards

Date: 3/17/2015 8:50:00 PM

Wow......floriforms of fungus blooms.... only you could write with such expressive, (if not creepy, perhaps? lol) amazing description !! Yikes...Hitchcockish !!

Laura Leiser

Date: 3/13/2015 2:54:00 PM

Exhilarating and expressive words weave their wonderful magic through your poem, Debbie! A 7 from me :)

Kp Nunez

Date: 3/12/2015 11:27:00 PM

Riveting. Had to repeat reading several times. I hope to have this stroke of a genius like your pen's. Indeed I have come to appreciate insanity's added more color to the world of artists, from whom come out great creative works, that can only be appreciated by those who claim to be perfectly sane. A 7 and to the favs! PS. Thank you Debbie for placing me in the Traditional Haiku Contest. Hugs! Kim :)

Rhonda Johnson-Saunders

Date: 3/10/2015 1:25:00 AM

Insanity does bring out genius... I think we "normal" people miss out on the fun...best to sometimes walk outside our comfort zones. Love this write, Debbie! Hugs, rhonda

Hija De La Luna

Date: 3/10/2015 12:15:00 AM

this is splendid, Debbie! your words brought me there at the precipice and that what i call a powerful write. great!

Leo Larry Amadore

Date: 3/9/2015 10:08:00 PM

Compulsion, non-stop creativity, acute sensitivity, and uncontrollable emotion may, in some quarters, be called "insanity," but how mundane would life and art be without these? Genius has often been mistaken for insanity....Your posted picture and your poem were very nice! Good work.

Cecilia Macfarlane

Date: 3/9/2015 9:30:00 PM

To remain sane amongst the insanity is a challenge, thought provoking and great write Carrie. Hugs