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Flowery Fishbowl Poetry

Caught within a dream,

repeating thoughts swirling around eddies

like a lost fish swimming in circles,

stuck in his fishbowl.

.

These ideas want to control me,

but I won’t let this cloud

of flowery romanticism catch me,

even though the side effects

of writing sappy poetry

in scripted handwriting

have already set in.

.

Then in a moment of lucidity

the poem is carefully and elegantly

scribbled out,

almost in regret of having to do so

but the idea is already there.

.

My efforts of avoiding these ideas

have been ruined

by writing them down once more.

This is the vicious cycle of a single lover

attempting to breathe underwater

alone.

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Just a little something I wrote a while ago. I still like it so I thought I’d post it. I know most people don’t like or read poetry, but I hope someone enjoys it.

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2 Responses to “Flowery Fishbowl Poetry”

  1. kyletolle Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

    I like how you incorporated the fishbowl into this poem. The first stanza and the last line are my favorites of the piece.

    I can relate to the struggle of writing an idea down after it’s in my mind. I wish it would just write itself!

    I do see a small grammatical mistake in stanza 2: the last line “has set in” should be “have set in” because side effects is plural.

  2. Dacc Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    Me! I enjoyed it! Sigh. Very lovely. <3

    ..I used to write things….now I can’t ever seem to get myself to make it work. :\

    Thank you for sharing!