Losing Track

I lose track of myself sometimes

it's so easy to lose track

my head leans against the white wall

turning gray

my arms write feverishly

trying to pin something to the page

something real or true or dangerous

my feet rest in a barren soil

the dirt of the good earth

so I guess I'm all connected

but it's so easy

to lose track

Reviews

[1809 Black Plague Decem..]

thank goodness, that's how it is,
I relate,
Only, I do fiction,
I fall into worlds that my characters lead, sometimes I'm in them
great poem! you awoken I. ----Maynard :P

[W. Barrett Munn]

I sometimes think about Hemingway who said he never worried about writers’ block as he knew all he had to do was write one true sentence and go from there.

Winston

[John Sullivan]

I was passed down some Hemingway from my maternal Grandpa, the Nick Adams Stories and to Have and Have Not, and a few others. Love his prose, and that's a great quote.We can try anyways. Thanks for reading!

[Bhuyanshi Talukdar]

Exploring the struggle of staying connected to one's true self and the ease with which this connection can be lost.

[John Sullivan]

Yep. Was having a rough day

[Vol]

John,
I've always believed that poetry, from its earliest inception, is of and for the people all the way back to caves and campfires where tribal values and exploits were there to create unity and identity. Today we are different culturally, so our own lives seem to take precedence over our community, even though we live in a scrambled culture. Who has not been so negatively effected by events and encounters so we have to lean our heads against a wall as we try to pin down or pen down our confusion? We live and evaluate for ourselves rather than our tribe, those things we experience in this strange new world where we are, indeed , lost strangers.

[John Sullivan]

Thank you for your words, food for thought

[Betty Hermelee]

Maybe you're losing track of your thoughts.... not your path...maybe a walk around the block would help!
Warmly, B

[John Sullivan]

As it goes I just walked the downtown of the city I live in on an absolutely beautiful day... It's good to see the sun

[Betty Hermelee]

That’s good news!
Best, B

[John the Baptist]

Yes, and when you lose track in the sense mentioned here, it's called a block.