Ecstacy to Rage

Why do I go from romance to despair in swift and silky flows Please dear poets do get in touch if anybody knows?

Ecstasy to Rage

These are simple emotions,

amorous bedfellows of my pen

that spill from the deep

dark crevices

carved into my tortured,

yet romantically optimistic,

heart and soul.

I vacillate between them

choosing as I would a tie

to match my mood.

From deep Despair to Loving Tryst

mere meanderings of my mind.

A lyrical vent

to my construct of the world

and vivid voice

to my joy and to my pain.

 

29/03/13

Reviews

[Mark]

Being sensitive holds lots of peril for us western males, one of them being the vacillation you speak of brother of the heart. I, unfortunately, have no answer other than to put up walls, which I wouldn't know how to do even if I wanted to.

[Angi]

"Why do I go from romance to despair in swift and silky flows Please dear poets do get in touch if anybody knows?" I am looking for an answer to this question, myself. Angi~

[John Alexander McFadyen]

I guess it has to do with the fragility of the artist Angi. We are a fickle bunch!

[KAOlmsted]

I was wondering that myself ;-) Nice bit of introspection, John. Well penned.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks for your indulgence tonight Kimmer!

[KAOlmsted]

always ;-)

[Allan W]

This would make a great opening for a book of your collective poems John?

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Nice point Allan, Many thanks

[SHEEMA HUQ]

there is something really appealing about the abstract nature of this expression, very nice writing

[John Alexander McFadyen]

You will have had your fill of my writing having indulged me so but I am so very grateful Sheema.

[Claire Twinn]

Looking through the many lovely poems you have written in the past two weeks, I did wonder about your mood swings! I guess it is our stongest emotions that both shape us and linger unwanted.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha! thanks Claire. Nah I can simply move in and out as the mood takes me. Don't like to be too sameish!

[A. H. Pinley]

For writers, the pen and paper is their therapy. Nice piece!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

True AHP, true!

[R. L. Ives]

Maybe the answer is simpler than it seems. If your emotions were static, you would be something other than a poet. The tides go through four changes in a 24 hour period, two highs and two lows. We are controlled by the moon as the tides are, so I believe we too go through the same changes in our "tides".

Continue being the emotional, romantic optomist that you are...it makes your writing what it is, which is very good.

[quinfinn]

you're going to think i have completely lost my mind , but here goes...while reading this i started hearing it read aloud by rod serling , like an opener to the twilight zone...it just fit! i know, you're probably thinking "that's okay quin, take another big hit off that joint" i have only had toast and coffee...strewth! loved this write....

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Many thank yours my man but what do they add to coffee in the States these days Quin?

[quinfinn]

well......this IS asheville. this town has a rep for being "everything friendly"...who knows?

[s y e]

Well, I think that it's because you write real life and heart felt writes, this one was great!

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Thanks NH; I think that is equally true. Not one to do things blandly lol

[s y e]

Haha, exactly