Best Addled Poems

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...

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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....

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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the dreaded blank page
silent voice listening

pensive quill awaits...

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(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...

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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...

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