Backwards Alice.

The trying to overcome the drought of self-doubt Part 10

1

Of late I just find it hard to write

Words hide behind time and fight

They do not wish to be seen by light

Of day nor come to my mind to stay

But then what is this little piece here, a golem?

What do I call this, six lines if not a POEM?

2

From a broken hand and heart

With swollen eyes and no art

I lost the will to write and ask

Those deep world questioning

The task was beyond my doing

Mindless games to heal became fact, the everyday act.

3

In truth "Beyond this Earth" become my reality,

I vegetated to the point of seeing only my negativity

Of why, do this to numb your mind and stop that creativity?

I could still speak and hear it and truthfully it was a perfect time

To read out loud or sing those poems I once wrote

But I didn't do this a crime of wasted time, yes a crime.

4

So nonsense became my daily ritual

As the hand and mind healed to be believable

And capable of any creative poetic pursuits

Though the memory of being a sloth, a potato

Mashed brain still holds a tight grip

I once again produce a group of six lines of six

5

Reclaiming my roots, so to speak

I return to peak at Alice and all her wondrous nonsense,

Of all things about big headed Red Queens

A pretty strange White Sister sweet but witchy like

I take a leaf and smoke that magic pipe

The imagination is fired and self-doubt now morphed.

6

I see the opening into my fractured features

You can do this again and be that poet you once where

It is up to you to find the lost Alice the one you know

Was the true Alice as before in Wonderland, dreaming.

Of a world of six impossible things before eating

And the resurrection is complete my friends, so welcome back ALICE.

To all those who do not know this story of Six Lines of six please visit my Alice in Wonderland book of poems and see the impossible challenge that I set myself. Worse than fighting any Jabawoky, I assure you is the commitment to something like producing six little poems daily. Are you just crazy enough to try?   

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