To ponder why,
In deep dismay
To Daydreaming in the stream of consciousness
Mixed in mind and heart desires
That detaches from current task and test,
Don’t quit your daydream
Trance aid fantasy
Intervision encapsulates me
Hallucination musing
Don’t quit your daydream
Imagining inattention gathers
Inattentiveness woolgathering preoccupation
Don’t quit your daydream
Emotional brooding
Obliviousness engrossment
absentmindedness Self-absorption
absence of mind
staring into space
abstraction
Don’t quit your daydream
lack of concentration lack of application
figment of the imagination
unrealizable dream Home is castle in the air
Wishful thinking fond hopes Self-absorption
Wishing upon…
Whatever it is Don’t quit your daydream
11/22/2022
For Don't Quit Your Daydream Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: craig cornish
Categories:
engrossment, analogy, celebration, destiny, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Bang! My lips turn down to frown
Windage and elevation, it didn’t feel right
Turning the turrets, two left and two down
Minute of angle accommodating my sights
Both eyes open and steady hands
Acquire the target and slow the heart
Breathe, and lets the bags of sand
Steady the path as the bullet departs
Still high and right, the target would say
Turn left and down adjustments are made
Bang, and another shot on the way
Near center circle, the lead had been laid
Now the world was leaving my vision
The target grew bright, in focus and clear
The shot required not a single decision
No hesitation or thinking, no doubt and no fear
And just for a moment, I was alone
No thoughts or distractions, no notice of the world
No intrusion for me, immersed in the zone
Laser precision about to be hurled
Bang, the shot rang clarity clear
Point of aim and impact are justified now
Slowly I come back to those who are near
They never knew I was gone anyhow
Maybe engrossment, or perhaps a trance
It’s hard to discern what is what
Just like the dancer is really the dance
I am the shooter - I am the shot
Categories:
engrossment, adventure, lost, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Below zero temp'rature recording
puzzles my special child's understanding
midst his engrossment for ice
and thermometer device
checking freezer* with its coolness' reading.
December 31, 2020
*We live in a "winterless" place; thus, my child's exposure to ice is the freezer.
4th place, "Winter Snow or Ice Limerick Contest"
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin; judged on 1/8/2021.
Categories:
engrossment, appreciation, child, winter,
Form: Limerick
Typographical phonetics
Minimalist squirt dialogue
Engrossment through corn similar
Unclassified period
Gargling contextual extent
Rapture on the blank
Antagonic concept verbalized
Top Hat
Capital sunset in climb
Plus digitalized volume
Black hole polar mark
Snail-rail gravitation
Reach the over-somandric
Unprinted root stripe
Communication on exponents
Unguided tone folding
Neurotransmission lost
Categories:
engrossment, confusion
Form: I do not know?
You have seen life being pleasant to you,
And you have seen it being nasty too.
Which course it will take is unto you,
Stark black or bright blue.
Honor yourself for whatever course you take,
Respect yourself for all the decisions you make.
It's yet hard to survive or think ahead now,
But have faith in yourself,
And you'll make it through somehow.
No one can give your life back to you,
But faith in yourself,
That you'll swim to the shore in a rough sea too.
In your engrossment over your bad luck,
You are failing to see the light,
Which can dawn upon you,
From your own insight.
God told you that He's with you in every way of life,
But you found yourself all alone to fight and to strive.
When you complained to Him, He said;
The one pair of foot prints, which you saw as yours along the shore,
Were of mine and mine alone,
Because all through your hardships and troubles i was carrying you.
FOR ALL THE DISHEARTENED PEOPLE.
ZEHRA. ABBAS
Categories:
engrossment, faith, faith, life,
Form: Verse