Poetry – Inside my head – pt3 of the Tumble Drier Trilogy. (That sounds so good)

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Inside my head

I was enjoying myself playing with this idea. This was the second in my tumble drier trilogy. I didn’t quite get the scan right but I found that if you say it right you can get it to work.

Communication is amazing.

All those neurons firing away in the dark, creating patterns of electricity that somehow have meaning. Evolution is wonderful.

I know that if I really peered inside at an operating brain all I’d see is dull grey blancmange. But I can fantasise.


Inside my head

 

There’s a hurricane inside my head;

A firework display of sparks.

Ideas spin like electric storm

In crescendo of fits and starts.

 

A tumble drier churns them round

As around they spin and fall.

A blizzard of electricity

In a scintillating squall.

 

I round them up like a herd of cats

And try to tie them down;

To translate them into the black and white

Of advective and noun.

 

This is them upon this page

Frozen as if in blocks of ice

No longer spinning in a rage;

Words will have to suffice.

 

I hope that when you read these words

The energy is released.

That you see the colours that were in my head

And they will be reprised.

 

Opher 5.9.2015

5 thoughts on “Poetry – Inside my head – pt3 of the Tumble Drier Trilogy. (That sounds so good)”

  1. Very good as always Opher, but I pronounce ‘Reprise’ with a long ai, so fell briefly at the last hurdle until I realised the alternative pronounciation. How about ‘And they will not be surceased’ as an alternative?

    1. Hi Ian – good to hear from you. Now surcease would work. That’s a word that you don’t hear very often. It would maybe more obviously rhyme better but you’d lose the sense of it being replayed. It’s playing one off against the other. I know what you mean though. Cheers – Opher

  2. Well I did think of ‘increase’ to start off with, but that doesnt quite jive with the poem’s track either
    Just started work as call-handler for a local taxi firm, so no Space Donkeying for me for a bit. I need to move to a planet with longer daze 🙂

    1. That’s no good to hear. Space Donkeying was good. We need lots of good at the moment. I’ll see what I can do to slow the planet down so that we get an hour or two. If everyone on the planet al walked in the same direction for an hour that might do it! I just need more of a daze!

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