My bones are tingling with a sort of feeling.
Like how the air feels as it sets in altering.
A quick season before it started raining.
Something that causes you to unwilling.
Afferent powers and their link to thinking
And here I am, all of a sudden panicking.
Similar to the tide being hit by something.
By the outset of a minute, I am shrinking.
Written: May 29, 2022
Surging like electricity to the esoteric abyss of my soul,
felt in all body parts, the flinching brought to the shoal.
Even the slightest stub of a toe, a beloved child in distress,
causes bile to roil and roll, the bowels of my heart in duress.
Likewise the agony of a pet - the suffering shrill, painful howl.
As a child I buried a silver dollar, his float to water’s top foul.
The automatic flinch - squeeze of fists, jaw, stomach, lady parts.
My brain disoriented, imaginative, culling others pain is a fine art.
The news of a small child hit by a homerun play, and the grab
Of the disintegrating player, dissolving into tears - a poignant stab.
Why do I linger so long, explaining at length my wearisome woe.
So you’ll grasp my afferent saturation and how my compassion grows.
5/30/2019
What Makes You Flinch Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Julie Rodeheaver
Those days are not far gone
When your rosy kiss shone
My entire being with love
Between then and now
Your memories still crawl
Alive is your noun
In that heart you always stay
You still linger and your say
‘My love for you cannot sway’
Still lives and nay
How can that heart misplace your name
Will I be able to bear that shame?
No, in my veins is your fame
Of generosity, honesty and your kindness I claim
Into my afferent world I missed your blame
‘You got to do it once’ to gain
The congratulation you lack
Little do I know you will leave me with the luck
I won from your inspirations
Those days are not far gone
When your rosy kiss shone
My entire being with love
Between then and now
Your memories still crawl
Alive is your noun
In that heart you always stay
You still linger and your say
‘My love for you cannot sway’
Still lives and nay
How can that heart misplace your name
Will I be able to bear that shame?
No, in my veins is your fame
Of generosity, honesty and your kindness I claim
Into my afferent world I missed your blame
‘You got to do it once’ to gain
The congratulation you lack
Little do I know you will leave me with the luck
I won from your inspirations
Then and now are afferent worlds
Errors of yesterday is far gone
Its time you focus on the present
And lo and behold!
Now!
Yes be present
Let the past crawl away
No matter the agony it inflicts
Peace will flow
Let go the pieces below
Echoes of the past have swayed
Away
Undo is impossible
Carry along with your lovely life
Success is possible as long as you live
The ‘future’ surely will shine
Trust your success to come off
And don’t thrust your life
Because of a failure you can do better
Life is success, so never give up on the struggle
As always they will shine
Afferent archery
As sparkling efferent
Avid constellations
Act, salty and feline
Adulterous winking
Aerobics of nature
21/11/2015
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