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Nut Screws And Bolts

Listening to you
oh what a to-do
it looks like
you've come unglued
or going bananas
your psyche's addled the mind muddled
brain's fogged boggled or befuddled
is something missing
a marble or two
perhaps a loose screw
maybe more than a few
and making a run
or bolt for it
will never do
it's not too late
to join the inmates
for as well you know
you will still be there
wherever

Categories: addled, fun, humor, psychological, silly,
Form: Rhyme

An Addled Alphabet

A is for gasoline and matches
B is for Las Cruces, Lincoln County and Natchez
C is for zebras wearing stripes
D is for frozen broken pipes
E is girls with long eyelashes
F is lightning when it flashes
G is for toy boats that float in rain
H is an old man, without his cane
I is for apricots and spiced yams
J

Categories: addled, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme

Addled

the dreaded blank page
silent voice listening

pensive quill awaits

Categories: addled, inspiration,
Form: Senryu

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Dance of Minions

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

Categories: addled, inspiration,
Form: Blank verse

Addled

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.

Categories: addled, anxiety, emotions, feelings, fun,
Form: Rhyme

He Was Addled

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

Categories: addled, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

Knackered Nonsense

(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

Categories: addled, humor, imagination, nonsense, silly,
Form: Rhyme

Addled

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

Categories: addled, adventure,
Form: Ballad

Addled Longing

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

Categories: addled, dream, heart, lost, lost
Form: Rhyme

My Mind Is Addled

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

Categories: addled, confusion, dream, how i
Form: Haibun

Addled

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

Categories: addled, sad
Form: Free verse