Oh, the mind is eely, slipping
out of its puzzle boxes,
loving its own wit . . .
Mind/Body by Gregory Djanikian, Poetry Magazine, April 2000
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MIND CHATTERED
by
Jamie Dedes
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mind in chatter mode will do you in
like a car without a driver,
a good tool gone rogue
it will numb you with its burden of
old stories and wishing wells
could have beens, should have beens
crowd pleasers and ego teasers
·
it will desecrate your sacred space
with the rotting carcass of old resentments
tired rivalries, rigid renunciations
it will domesticate your dreamscape with
the dreck of times gone by and
tedious, trivial, trumpery thinking
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it will leech and parch your soul garden
which would otherwise shout vivid
with rainbow flowers and the scents
of night-blooming jasmine, fresh morning dew
and a rose quartz blush of air current
for traveling to spring valleys, bright stars
·
with mind in chat mode trapped in earthy ken
your most wonderous inner worlds go sadly
unimagined and unexplored and you –
you, fully chattered, shattered, scattered
will never even know
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Illustration ~ Frits Ahlefeldt, Public Domain Pictures.net.
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