Vertigo Poems

The Bird With Vertigo

It’s too high, far too high, I cannot look down at the floor’
Said the bird who realised she suffered from vertigo
‘But it’s only a bird bath’ this really is too silly
Said her impatient friend, who by now was rather chilly.

‘Why me, why me? I can’t believe it’s happened to me!’
Said the bird to her friend, wishing she could flee. 
We’ve got to get this sorted, we’ve got to get this right
If you are to ever take your very first true flight. 

‘I have an idea, I think it might just work’
Said the bird to his friend, as she might just go berserk 
‘If you simply close your eyes and imagine you can float
As if you’re perched safely, on a magic flying coat

The bird with vertigo said ‘maybe I can try’
Then closed her eyes tightly, as she flew up in the sky
She dare not even look, for fear that she may fall
But her friend was right beside her, at her beck and call. 

‘You’re flying!’ said her friend ‘I’m so very, very proud’
As they both navigated carefully, each and every cloud,
Now you are a bird who is not afraid to fall,
You can do it if you try, is a lesson for us all.

Vertigo

Drifting with the tide 
logic crashes as waves burst,
swept by vertigo.

Vertigo

She was yer postcard type of witch
Long black cloak and red striped hose
Pointy hat and straggly raggly hair
Even wart of requisite size on nose
Miaowly cat of evil demeanour
Balanced there on her broom
With a certain air of sang froid
As she steered around the room

But eye of toad and tongue of newt
Plus any spell known just couldn’t right
That she couldn’t fly by the moon
Cos she was so afeared of heights
She never made the witches ball
Never danced the Evil Tango
If one just can’t ride one’s broomstick
There’s no way known that one can go
So she sits at home in misery
Frantically searching for a spell
A charm a potion or incantation
To solve her perfectly dreadful hell

Oh she can curse with the best of ‘em
Cure warts and other various ills
But how can a witch be credible 
When she’s always having spills
How can a witch have pride
When she can’t leave her room
To attend her monthly local coven
Cos she keeps falling off her broom

Cutthroat Cure For Vertigo-

Sick throw is giroped
cut throat 
splits hope 
wild licking soap?
New cure for vertigo

3/12/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

Vertigo

Niagara Falls must have vertigo
It keeps falling every day just for show
Wants attention I guess
An ego hard to suppress 
Must say it's pretty damn impressive though

Vertigo On the Mountain Top

I grasp the safety rail
and admire the view.
Beneath ancient cliffs 
of grey and gold, 
a sea of trees swell 
into the blue white mist.
The cold wind presses me
with love of the depths;
I feel like a bird
in the light open air, 
above clean space,
It would not hurt if I fell...

Love's Vertigo

Love's vertigo


Outside snow is falling, no leaves left on the trees
but inside there's a heat, that brings me to my knees
Trapped inside the vertigo, as lovers rise and fall
Isn't dizzy desire the answer, whenever romance calls?

July 17,2019

Excerpt from my song
Between the whispers and the sighs

For Greg Barden's contest Arbitrium Divisa 3

Vertigo In the Abyss

God, what is infinite mercy?
God, what is Love? 
God, forgiveness for what?
Fear not for God is with thee…
God, if you are with me I can’t see you.
I feel safe when I can see who is with me.
God I am so alone and afraid. How can I fear not?
God, I am falling blind in a dark abyss with vertigo.
Falling is terror enough but why this disorienting tumble
in muscled salty waves of oceanic cosmos?
Strong arms tangle, strangle, caress, toss up, down, upside down…
will I drown or is this the labor to life?
Are the contractions pushing to an opening prayer?

Dammit God dammit, are you there?

Vertigo

Experiencing vertigo since waking today
A strange phenomenon, is my brain in decay?
Still alert am I
Two plus two is five
Oops, perhaps I should see a doctor without delay

Vertigo

Thoughts spinning around
Feel the shifting grounds


Fuzzy feelings crash
In a churning flash


Strange vertigo streams
In a flash of dreams


Sense makes no sense here
Clash of crazy spears


Round and round I go
Drowning in mad flow


Vertigo I see
Yield to what may be




Leon Enriquez
23 May 2018
Hamlet Place, ACT

Vertigo of Late Autumn

VERTIGO OF LATE AUTUMN

uninjured ~
free-falling leaf
lands on first snow

12/8/2017

Vertigo

Vertigo

If up is down up
Then down is up inside out
Someone close the door


10/10/17
by James Edward Lee Sr.

Vertigo

The fiber of me
drawn into their sweep
up
away
and back again

my breath and bone
fused into wing

vertigo

when the doves
are circling.

Extreme Vertigo

Experiencing extreme vertigo since waking today
A strange phenomenon, is my brain in decay?
Still alert am I
Two plus two is five
Oops, perhaps I should see a doctor without delay

Vertigo

It stops
As soon as I get up
It starts again 
As I lie down,
The nerves falling out
Eyes crying
Heart sinking,
Mind losing sync
World spinning.

I do not understand,
I do not know,
The room around making a go,
And suddenly then,
My imaginations,
Taking control.
There’s something high,
In my blood,
There’s something low,
On the floor below,
A natural disaster,
Is an explanation?
But, where did,
My powers to rhyme go.

One step at a time,
I tell myself,
Don’t fall of the bed,
Just yet,
‘Love the feeling that you’re in’
Do I?
Subconsciousness, weariness,
Dormant, concealed,
Do I love this?
Quite yes.

The feeling so sublime,
Of my equilibrium,
Vanishing completely,
‘I’m okay’ I tell myself,
‘I will be okay’ corrected.
In this perpetual night,
With dogs singing in unison,
My head trembling like an earthquake,
And I,
In a peaceful state,
Human body,
Starts to make sense.

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