To The Frey

To The Frey

 

Perhaps it was faulty

too loose, spotty or just crossed wires

My blood was too salty

Or my subscription expired

 

Given to my nature’s

deviations of the estranged

askew nomenclature

many have thought me deranged

 

As a boy I pondered

Clouds in formation my purview

My thoughts oft did wander

Misting the exchange of square roots

 

A great Many have tried

To changing my strides errant view

I tried to comply

But my strange just wouldn’t subdue

 

So I sit here and type

Drift to draft past strife’s cast refrain

Oddly tuned genotype

Crack wry smile to my compile strange

Reviews

[Kathy Van Kurin]

'To The Frey'
Robert Trakofler,
Life is difficult and serious so we need a bit of light hearted banter which I found here in this writing of yours. I really appreciated how our identities are all unique to each soul we possess...that is who we are....our personalities. We all feel a little strange sometimes.
Blessings,
Kathy

[Robert Trakofler]

LOL thanks for reading this, I haven't read it in a long time:) I was a silly bunny but it all still fits my personality:) :)

[Eilis]

I was the strange child, black sheep of the family. I couldn’t understand why other people didn’t see the world like me. It takes time to figure out it’s ok to be this person. Even then, some days I’d like to be the “normal” proper person I imagine in my head.

But, we are who we are. That’s a lesson in itself and a valuable one. Being an oddball has its virtues as well. Art is not created, in general, by the contented or conventional personality. Our difference is sometimes what sets us going.

I see acceptance in your poetry. Like you have found yourself and want to celebrate that finding. It’s lovely to see. And your poem is such an affirmation - with its wry smile ending. Peace comes from within, indeed.

[Robert Trakofler]

Thanks Eilis with the wry smile stylus:)

[MomzillaNC]

Yes… writers are weird, but we poets take weird to a strange refrain. Check out my own homage to "Strange" https://www.writerscafe.org/writing/MomzillaNC/1407490/

[Robert Trakofler]

i will check it out thanks

[John the Baptist]

Don't worry, Bunny, they thought Ezra Pound was strange, too. Come to think of it, he actually was.

[Robert Trakofler]

LOL he was in such a splendid way:)

[R.E. Ray]

I read Emerson here, remnants from "Self-Reliance," honor in nonconformity, staying true to oneself, and sometimes smiling through the pain of rejection. There's appeal in the "strange," especially when confidence lies at the core. Another poem that's more than words, sir.

[Robert Trakofler]

wow thanks Ray! that is the key good sir...gaining that confidence in the face of the structural norms was a long time coming for me but in the meantime I was strange in a quieter way:)

[emmajoy]

Moon Madness could be your middle name and if it were, then .. we'd all be green.eyed at your birth-given name, dear sir! Don't dare ever change. Who said you can't wear a hat with a three inch red heel, who said.. 'if I ruled the world I'd be a poet who knows how to juggle words into an anthem!' Love the read, love the intention, love the upsidedness, it's a real invention! Your words make music..

(just read again... love the musical tones of the academically wild rhyming:'

As a boy I pondered
Clouds in formation my purview
My thoughts oft did wander
Misting the exchange of square roots)

[Robert Trakofler]

blushing me again and so grateful! thanks for your review dear Emmy:) I have been digesting your recent poems but haven't found the words yet but will be stopping by soon:)

[emmajoy]

No rush, not going away for quite a while.. home sweet home and all that.

Going to read your words all over again whilst sipping a cuppa and desperately wanting another cookie!

[Gee]

So then Robert, you are a self confessed oddball, probably described as eccentric by many and a f*****g nutter by a few :))
I often drop by to read but seldom know what your words mean, that's just me being thick :))
Hope you are well.

[Robert Trakofler]

hey Gee Thats my problem LOL need to be more relatable:) I'm getting there my friend thanks for checking in:)

[Kelly Scheppers]

I think my Thesaurus could learn a thing or two from you. (I know I have!) I admire your poetic prowess, Robert.

[Robert Trakofler]

hi Kelly:) this was a fun one to do everyone keeps telling me I don't express much about myself that I am to restrained part of this for me is a don't think I'm all that... you know what i mean

[Kelly Scheppers]

I think you're pretty special to a lot of us here!

[Ted Kniffen]

Who some call strange ... are merely interesting. I do believe that writers are driven by necessity to strangeness, how else to define what we do and how we do it.
So, if strange is deranged, I'd rather not change.
Well done, Rob, a touch of saneness in the midst of insanity.

[Robert Trakofler]

Thanks Ted....you go...weirdo! LOL what a strange fate to be born into the strangeness reigns:/

[Annette Pisano-Higley]

Hmmmm...”When you’re strange, faces come out of the rain...” Jim Morrison would truly love your askew poem Bad Bunny! Beautifully versed and rhymed, it dances across the mind. We see through our muse’s eyes- be they clear or blurry-ha! Poets are doomed to be “Strange”! “Drift to draft past strife’s cast refrain”- wonderful line worthy of the Bard. Alliterative genius demonstrated throughout. Wish I had your Gift of Gab my friend! Truly an illuminated manuscript alight with poetic brilliance. Kudos!

[Robert Trakofler]

Thank you so much Annette you are giving me an inflated head when you say things like that:) your pen strikes many a glow too! It is hard not to think of Jim Morrison when you see the word strange in fact I had to consciously edit his cadence when I first started writing this:)