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An Idea
by George J. Carroll → (All Poetry by George J. Carroll)
Friday, October 2, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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An idea is like a corkscrew

Once it gets a grip on you

You have to let it come out.

 

You cannot bottle it up

For another day,

As it will get lost.

 

So many ideas go astray

When they are not heeded;

A poet knows all too well.

 


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 Reviews of "An Idea"
Reviewed by Kathleen McDonald
Reviewed on October 7, 2015
Absolutely

hug
Kathy

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on October 3, 2015
I always say I will do the same but have not done it yet thus lost poems are the result. Thankfully it does not happen often.

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on October 3, 2015
I find this to be so true, George. I have a digital recorder under my pillow because a lot of my ideas (inspiration) come in the middle of the night at times. If I do not record them, come morning, they are often lost and thus I cannot share them via poetry or other means. Love and peace,

Regis

Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger
Reviewed on October 3, 2015
~George~
Oh, yes to this poem. My goodness the ideas slip.

Lady Mary Ann

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on October 3, 2015
Especially, for me, just before I go to sleep, I have so many ideas and say to myself I will remember it when I awake...yeah right, like that is going to happen...-e-

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on October 3, 2015
Absolutely right on that one!

I find that every time I have an idea on how to get to Mars quickly and easily, I find that I don't have the billions, the time, the energy, or the guts to go ahead and make my idea a reality. So, before I can marshal all thee resources, I called forget what the idea was--strange. ;-)

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on October 2, 2015
My ideas are more like a train,
I have to keep them on track.
If they get derailed,
they're never coming back.

Michael D.

Reviewed on October 2, 2015
That's the truth!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on October 2, 2015
I can't tell you how many poems I have lost
in my head, not having paper and pen
by my side.

Always,
Deborah

Reviewed by Cindy Tuttle
Reviewed on October 2, 2015
Boy- you can say that again. I have to laugh- sometimes the idea comes at the most inopportune time. Thanks George.

Cindy

Reviewed on October 2, 2015
that's why a poet is someone more than a poet. Cheers, alex

Reviewed by Ashiff Jivraj
Reviewed on October 2, 2015
How true. Use the corkscrew and you invite fine wines to everyone's palate like great ideas to the world. Ashiff

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on October 2, 2015
ahhhh yes the idea not heeded that gets lost...so true


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