Letters and Diary Poetry posted May 18, 2024


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A Moment of J'oie de vivre

by Tom Horonzy

 
I awoke this morning with an air of  joie de vivre
delighted in being alive had my mind dancing a jig
when without warning the thoughts I thought, 
in sleep, which flowed as easily as a river to the sea, 
became jammed against a dam, no longer free; 
as if they had never been as clever as I believed

turning the brilliance gathered into ephemeral blather.

How to proceed made a fool out of me.
I blinked my eyes, let out a sigh 
sat in a chair, and began to cry.
trying to shake cobwebs from my mind.
Zip, zippo, zilch. Diddly squat.

So, I am doing the next best thing.
I'm going back to sleep.

 



Free Verse Poetry Contest contest entry


The photo is my own and is to represent bewilderment for that is the essence of the prose written, supposedly.
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