Monday, August 24, 2009

Saving Myself

Ghost Dansing has set this poem up precisely so I am bringing today's comment forward.

Ghost Dansing wrote

"i like when you write about your poetry because it helps me understand how wrong you are about your poetry :)"

How can I add to that?

Saving Myself

Sometimes my brain's like
a flock when the eagle shows,
and I scatter out
of formation to
save myself from being caught
in truth's twin talons.

What else can I do?

February 8, 2009 12:51 PM


The eagle is thinning the flock out pretty good :(

12 comments:

Linda S. Socha said...

Ah...yes Ghost Dancing....
Hugs to you both....
Linda

Michelle said...

Snort!

xx

Karen said...

Love "truth's twin talons"! Ghost is a wise spirit, I think.

namingconstellations said...

Excellent metaphor! Perhaps you should undertake a migration to stave off eagle troubles...

RachelW said...

Survival mechanism... sometimes it's best to take cover. Even when the eagle is of your own making.

Ghost Dansing said...

i know the exact sensation of which you write.....

TechnoBabe said...

At least you are still able to be in touch with your brain.

christopher said...

TB, how do you touch a thinning flock of birds?? :)

Ghost Dansing said...

Danny says we gotta go. Gotta go to Idaho
But we can't go surfin' 'cause it's 20 below.

Sound check's at 5:02. Record stores and interviews.
Oh, but I can't wait to be with you tomorrow.

Baby

Oho-ho-ho, we got nowhere to go and it may sound
Funny, but's true. Hangin' out in 100 B watching
Get Smart on TV. Thinkin' about.
You and me and you and me.

Hangin' out in L.A. And there's nowhere to go.
It ain't Christmas if there ain't no snow.
Listening to Sheena on the radio.
Oh-ho oh-ho.

Danny Says
Ramones

sometimes when i think of your poetry of think of other things as well.... this time i was thinking of Danny Says by the Ramones....

i'll paste a video of it someplace else....

christopher said...

GD, I get it that you can and do think of many other things as you think of my poetry, but in all honesty, I have no clue what the connection could be this time. I'll sign this
C at sea

Ghost Dansing said...

the connection would be loose in this particular case :)

Linda S. Socha said...

Ghost ...yest definitely a wise spirt...and a soul with a funny bone
Linda


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