Mad Adders

making fun of me

Mad Adders at the cafe'
some will never understand
how the hell can she be
putting another one up?
does she keep 'em in a bucket?
no storing, that's boring,
not much there to edit,
she keys 'em up,
and gives the divine credit --
a grain, a morsel,
a phrase a word,
and off she goes
to add another to the herd.
never reason,
sometimes rhyme,
always the season,
never enough time,
the process is ...
flat out,
pedal pressed
to paper,
never let off the throttle,
lose the moment,
run out of gas ...
It isn't easy,
it's just different,
where you craft and hone,
she strips it to the bone.
If she misses it,
it's gone,
never to return,
back into the
soup of collective
conscience,
on some other Mad Adder's pen
it will burn.

Author's Note

an attempt to describe the divine inspiration process of poetry --
it's written, flat out, in one chunk, as it came to me
The song is because that's how I do a lot of things

Reviews

[AprilRN1210]

LMAO.... oh my goodness... you are crazy talented for sure... and yes, you whip em out girl, but they are so freaking awesome... I love coming to your page and having a big stack of presents to open... each one different and entertaining... and hey, if you keep throwing such awesome music in there, who am I to complain... win-win-WIN.... wahooooo!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much. I have to admit, I am the superbeast somedays ...

[AprilRN1210]

you're welcome... yep.. but I like it.. and SUPER is the key word.. go big or go home... hoorah! lol
(yes, sleep deprived delirium... )

[Matching Socks]

When it rains it spews! From fingertips or pen!
Brilliant adding!

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. I actually wrote a whole pile before the crash. Just haven't had time to put 'em up

[Matching Socks]

Yeah! That kinda freaked me out a bit...

[Lyn Anderson]

I have been really diligent at saving. When I first started, I would add straight in to the cafe' program without double copy. Then there was a crash, and I started getting much more careful. Problem is, when you add 5 or more a lot of times in one day (you do that too, I notice) sometimes you get lax on copying.

[Matching Socks]

I'm bad at it, gotta admit, but I just started posting my stuff elsewhere too so I have about 80% of it there. Thank god!

[Sami Khalil]

"lose the moment,
run out of gas ...
It isn't easy,
it's just different,
where you craft and hone,
she strips it to the bone.
If she misses it,
it's gone,
never to return,"

Something witty and magical about your writes. Those who make fun of themselves are confident in their abilities...Excellent...:)....................

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks a lot. I have been madly adding as of late. 13 poems since yesterday. I have another one unpublished I will leave till tomorrow. All my writing is getting skipped over because I am churning it out so fast. In a very creative mode, and I appreciate you taking the time.:)

[Sami Khalil]

My pleasure. Any time...:).........................

[Delmar Cooper]

The report stated that after the explosion a poem-like substance was found dripping from the walls and ceiling.

[Lyn Anderson]

OMG Delmar, how do you do it? Your words always send me to the keyboard.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the soup of the collective...

Frank O'Hara wrote similarly...as do I...

they just pour out in spurts...not much thinking...just writing.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, many people do. And those who don't, don't get us, just like we really can't fathom their process.

[Rene Salinas]

A suden rush a constant stream, an internal combustion of expression freed from it's shackles, an intention traveling at terminal velocity never to be subdued. A son of the vortex in faceless progress, coaxing, tugging, grinding. So elevated so God. Ok So I might have used a few hyperboles but it did feel like a process that could not be stopped which read in company of rhyming from start to end.

A female machine drinking gasoline.

Thankyou

[Lyn Anderson]

Superbeasts abound. I think Mad Adders are sadly misunderstood. We are not attention seeking. We are writing obsessed and can't stop. Half the time my poems are skipped over because I add too many per day. I was bottled up for nearly 7 years. That's a lot of creativity to let loose over 10 months:)

[Rene Salinas]

Anything I say from this point onwards could be miscontrued so I procalim: I will try not to skip KL's poems even if she uses more virtual space than others it is a sign of creativity not a crime.

[Lyn Anderson]

You are too kind. I think people think it's a vanity thing. Your reviews are always thoughtful and insightful, and inspiring.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

And there was me thinking this was about accountants or mathematicians!
As always you take the mundane and make it a flowing story with a point.

[Lyn Anderson]

Life is, sadly, mundane. It's the journey that makes it interesting.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

T.r.u.e!!!

[Frieda P]

FASTER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET..........................throttle it! haha

[Lyn Anderson]

Yep, and I love this song. For running, for writing, for ...:)

[Frieda P]

As if you had to say... :)