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Darkness and Insomnia
By BR Chitwood
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Sleep waits with me until
Insomnia might mercifully
Quit its nightly routines,
The tossing and turning
Becoming an unbearable
Stir of stupid body scenes.
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How to position my hands?
My head? My legs? My feet?
My brain goes hither and yon.
The grandfather clock ticks
Off its steady pulsations
As thoughts pound on and on.
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Now, I sit in my Lazy-Boy
Typing out my wariness
With words that rhyme.
My head begins to nod,
Drowsiness comes to tease,
Off to bed one more time.
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Again, beneath the covers
My body comfortably in
Tune with my mind,
The damned cat pounces
On my naked form and
Decides it’s time to unwind.
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A Restless Poetic Effort by BR Chitwood – October 4, 2019
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I'm a young man in an old man's body, trying to catch up to myself, trying to find pieces of me I left back in a disconnected youth and the early years of manhood. I'm a stereotype of many in my generation who can play the 'blame game', yell 'foul', and 'let's start over'. But, we are what we are, the sum of all the scary kid-emotions we experienced, the gin mills and piano bars that became our sandboxes of pleasure - lotus eaters of the best (or, worst) kind, the love affairs that did not quite settle us down, the sad poetry and songs written in bars and motels along the way... A Dreamer! A Wanderlust! The world needs such fools as we to write our books, our poetry, our songs, to offset the madness that plagues the soul.
I've written fourteen books, over three hundred blog posts, in search of those pieces left somewhere in many parts of the globe. You can preview my books on the next page. There's even a Blog page...all my posts are not showing on this recently created blog page, but, if you want to read more, go to my official blog site and check out the archives: http://www.thefinalcurtain1
Writing for me is therapy for the soul.
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