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Non compos Mentis ?
by E T Waldron → (All Poetry by E T Waldron)
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I found myself looking down the path
as it seemed to descend,yet I was climbing
a mountain why was this happening
everything seemed opposite, I looked at
the sky, and saw the ground

If that were so  I would be walking on the
sky,  I looked down and  I see the river
that I'm  walking through, but I couldn't
be walking in the river I was dry

I'm getting ready to cry, I see the mountain
I'm climbing ahead of me, yet I see a horse
on a parallel path going upward looking
down at me, This has to be  a dream

I let out a scream, but I don't hear it, so this
is a nightmare no doubt of it , and I want to
wake up, but I can't, and the terrain changes
I'm now going uphill  in a desert

That's it I can't take anymore of this nonsense
but I have no control, whatever is happening
is by the power of something or someone else
I watch  a camel fly by me

Now I'm beginning to elevate I'm almost in
the sky next to the camel then he's down on
the ground and I'm descending onto his back
I believe I'm going to crack

I'm sitting at an outdoor cafe, and across from
me my friend says, " Where did you just go to,
you looked like you spaced out- I couldn't
 get through to you for the past five minutes,
I was ready to get a doctor"

We are in the city where I live at a neighborhood
cafe we always visit, I get up saying" I have to go
home I feel dizzy",  as I arise I'm clutching a handfull of  sand and camel color hair, and
there's sand on my shoes ,and on the ground as I walk away from the table.

etw

 

 

 


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 Reviews of "Non compos Mentis ?"
Reviewed by Cryssa C
Reviewed on May 11, 2009
Love it! It made me smile. :~) It also made me wonder if all of this really happened.
But...what does it really mean? Waiting for the poem that shares it meaning with us.

Cryssa :~)

Reviewed by Sheila Roy
Reviewed on May 9, 2009
Eerie, Eileen. Very dream-like. Hugs,
Sheila

Reviewed by Jon Willey
Reviewed on May 9, 2009
Eileen, this journey, flight of imagination you took me on was fabulous -- this work comes from a very creative mind indeed -- bravo my dear friend -- peace and love -- Jon Michael

Reviewed on May 9, 2009
interesting something like the twilight zone verse Eileen, got me still spinning, have a great mothers day, hugs

Reviewed by Barbara Terry
Reviewed on May 9, 2009
Very dramatic Eileen. It kept me reading every word. Thank you for sharing with us.

Love& hugs,
Barbie

Reviewed on May 9, 2009
Exquisite, Eileen, what a ride! Well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Liana Margiva
Reviewed on May 9, 2009
VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Liana Margiva

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on May 9, 2009
Wow - now I have both a brother and a sister who go trippin while staying in place!

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on May 9, 2009
Tiger Lily, you gonna make your Ed Brother exultant with pride, specially our Jersey Devil!

Edvard(k) your Ole Brother

PS:Dreams or nightmares are there for a reason, not always with a purpose or a explanation, but in our mind so vivid that if in your dream you are running you will wake up sweating and with very tired legs. In reality one doesn't need or wish and explanation.


Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
hmmm--i do like this-

Reviewed on May 8, 2009
Another 1960 child, is it local stuff? or you gonna blame it on the smoke from Santa Barbera? What is the name of that cafe? come on I won't tell. Can you hear me now? HUGS!!!!! Jasmin Horst

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
Eileen,
I needed this journey this morning, a wet morning after a night of almost continuous thunderstorms here in Singapore and as a result very little sleep. Again, you are on a cloud and I love being there with you. More, please!
John

Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
i've some amazing lucid day dreams, but I've never brought back souveniers :)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Price
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
Wow. What a journey. Glad you landed back down...or up? that camel hair can be sticky though. Love it. Liz

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
I really want whatever it is you are popping or smoking...the stuff I got never gives me these kind of great hallucinations...ed

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
Love you!

Reviewed on May 8, 2009
Hi ET, Hey, I did that once when I lived in LA! My friend even dumped cold water on me... Must be something in the air, eh?

In Spirit,
Bear

Reviewed by Gene Williamson
Reviewed on May 8, 2009
How often do you and your pen take these Daliesque trips, Eileen?
You do it so well I hope there's a sequel. -gene.

Reviewed on May 8, 2009
Great write, Eileen; hope you are okay! You're ever in my thoughts and prayers; please take care! Well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :)

Reviewed on May 8, 2009
At a cafe with a friend? And what were you eating and/or drinking" :o) I think we have a bro (father of Rufuz) who might want to order some of that stuff! Now...tell us you made it home ok...
WOW...what a trip.
Blessings and Love - Micke


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