Best Mind Games Poems
smiles, but no crow's feet
betrayal
of body language
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MagiCicada 13 ~ Body & Mind
Contest by Maureen McGreavy
Placed 1st
24th June 2018
Mind games,
They make us think,
The norm is not the norm,
Our thought patterns are being changed,
Unboxed.
Mind Games
…”bottom of the ninth
………”two outs!!
…………………two on
…..three balls
……………two strikes”
“CRACK”
….”.a sinking line drive to left….
……….he moves cat-like across the grass
…………………the game
……………………………….the series….on the line
….chest aching
……….legs burning
…………………he dives……
…..reaching
…………..grasping
………………………..floating
……in the ultimate dream..
………hands caress the ball….
………..tumbling
………………….streaking grass staining his face
………rolling to a stop
…………………the crowd roaring”
…….he squints
…………………….flexes his glove
…………………………………………...hears the crack of the bat
John G. Lawless
11/20/2015
submitted to – Oil Paintings 4&5
sponsor – Eve Roper
I am in all directions
a multidimensional atmosphere
extending to infinity..........and beyond.
To know me is to know yourself
for we are one and the same
To hate me is to hate yourself
not that you do
but if you did
know we are connected
quite literally
bound in your subconscious
not that you would believe me
To love me is to love your Self
through infinity and beyond
I am in all dimensions
in Alpha I was born
in Omega I am born again
what am I?
I am a waterfall in the desert.
A rain from a cloudless sky.
A well known but unborn child.
An insistence experience
that you never had.
I play mind games with your brain.
When you strike the keys
and remember the sea
I come as indefinable memory.
When you look at your watch
and the time has passed
you feel me like a fleeting hallucination.
I play mind games with your brain.
I’m nesting behind your eyes.
I’m ranging through your dreams.
You are finding me in all of your desires.
In all of those are absent from you.
I play mind games with your brain.
I stand in the places that you cannot reach.
I exist where you cannot touch upon.
But I am what you always waiting for
I m what holds your life on.
I play mind games with your brain.
But I swear this is not fun.
I feel unbearable loneliness.
Because I do not have a body
And you, that you have, refuse it to me.
Repetitive Double talk
(Read across then down and up)
Silent-------whispers
Whispers---faintly
Faintly-----saying
Saying-----softly
Softly------hearing
Hearing----meaning
Meaning---something
Something-silent
Silent------ whispers
Id and ego are in retreat
have not been able to defeat
The bliss seen in the morning sun
A smile seen by everyone
A life without someone here to hold
An emptiness that can't be told
It's faith that keeps your mind in check
Soldiers all believe, hearing "hit the deck"
People will change and grow in life
God always protects your soul from strife
If unconditional love is what you need
Only faith and trust will grow that seed
for "Faith" contest
YOU'RE NOT GOOD FOR ME.
CHEATING, LIES , THE GAMES YOU PLAY.
I DESERVE BETTER.
The rainbow’d mist of memory,
Tells fond lies to the mind,
diffusing bitter moments,
that are better viewed half blind.
Recall selects with prejudice,
weaves tangled webs of lies,
a Gordian knot of half-truths,
untried by focused eyes.
With time the dead are sacred,
blessed by passage of the years,
faults dissipate in retrospect,
like salt in pools of tears.
What trick is this, what clever ploy
our memory banks deceive,
replacing truth filled memories
with damaged picture reels.
The pretty painted pictures,
that skip lightly through the mind,
bear faint and false resemblance,
to the reality behind.
Bad thoughts racing on
sweet will drip from my nervousness
so life starts to fade
A simple mind of complex case
Flooding the train of thought
With emotions as old as time
Wondering if they are ever going to change.
A single feather that of a dove
Symbolizes everything pure
To a simple mind a complex case
To a complex mind a simple case.
A river of passion flowing calmly
Symbolizing a greater power
To a simple mind a power untamed
To a complex mind a powerful weapon.
Understanding the simplest of things
Is all too confusing to a simple mind
All too easy to that of complex
Or is it easy to a mind of simplicity.
I'm afraid of dying
But I'm also afraid of living
I'm afraid of getting shot or stabbed
But I'm also afraid of falling of a skateboard or driving over the speed limit
I'm afraid of losing family members
But I'm also afraid of having kids
I'm afraid of drinking too much and throwing up
But I'm also afraid of how I'll look if I don't drink at all
I'm afraid that I might be too conceited and full of myself
But I'm also afraid that I wont fit in and nobody will like me
I'm afraid that I won't fulfil my dreams and aspirations
But I'm also afraid that I will become successful but I still won't be satisfied
I'm afraid that I will find the love of my life but she will be unfaithful to me
But I'm also afraid that i will find the love of my life and i will be unfaithful to her
I'm afraid that when i die I will not be remembered for what I want them to remember me for
But I'm also afraid that when i die no one will remember me at all
Always playing mind games
games I didn’t play
I would speak my mind straight
misinterpret what I say
you must think I deserve too
live my life just to serve you
I give to you get nothing back
you’re comfortable living like that
I gave you all the power
and happily you reigned
but then I went and dumped you
ain’t the power strange
figure it out, figure head
you haven’t got the power
any girl sitting on my throne
is there cuz I allow her
you have been my puppet
but now it’s a Republic
you are cold and very distant
I know I want something different
in your mind game you can’t see
this is the end of you and me
you think it’s a tactic to power grab
9 days go passed “how long will this last?”
see I was in a relationship
and you were playing power games
so I thought nah I’m done with it
dumped yet you’re playing games
you played those games I never took part
convinced I’m playing a waiting game
but I’m not, so now, goodbye!
Bam! Reality hit you hard!
You didn’t think to do anything that would keep me around
you played those two long weeks before reality was found
what do you think would attract me,
you do nothing satisfactory
just wait for me to gift to you
while you do nothing,
that’s why we are through
you made it easy leaving you!
I will find a Queen who is worthy of the crown,
it clearly wasn’t you inside out and upside down!
there is no safe port
tidal expressions anchor…
deep within one’s heart
© Harry J Horsman 2013
After inserting the narcissistic probe,
All he could say was,
Meet me in St. Louie, Louie.
There was never a dull moment
Listening to the guy rattling on.
Amazing-- how one person could be
The center of the universe,
Podcast and all.
Consternation? Exactly.
I was out of patience--
Time for a drubbing.
Take no offense, I said,
But if you do,
Return it in the morning.
Turning to more mundane courses,
Like breakfast
I tried to put the wretch
Out of my head.
But sometimes you just have to live
With what is broken.
In the end, never self-identify
As a narcissistic vagabond,
Because profanity is the habitation
Of small minds.