Real Toads word of the week is bottleneck. If ever there was a bottleneck it’s
In My Head
My head is a bottleneck –
New creations arrive
Faster than they can depart -
I really don’t know where to start.
My head is a bottleneck -
As ideas cram inside
Trying to get through
To express themselves anew.
My head is a bottleneck -
Where some things never
See the light of day,
Getting in each other’s way.
My head is a bottleneck -
A few thoughts escape
One by one and then
A big one sticks, again.
My head is a bottleneck -
And so much expands
Inside it.
I think,
at first,
It’s going to
BURST!
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I know what you mean! I guess it's because creativity hates being locked up. Thanks so much for participating John.
ReplyDeleteWhat you write is what I have been feeling all day: pictures demand to be created, poems to be written. I must have done four or five complete posts and my mind felt like it was about to explode unless I let it out.
ReplyDeleteBunged up ?
You must be listening to my brain. The second stanza really fits me. My thoughts look like rush hour in Houston.
ReplyDeleteWhen I hear the word "bottleneck" I immediately get homesick...I'm from Chicago and believe me when I say my first bottle was probably a bottleneck! Love your poem!
ReplyDeleteWoww....this is true....if ever there was a machine connected with the brain that promptly change the thoughts into written words.....great write....
ReplyDeleteI have this same problem! I do think it is part of the creative process~ Fun to read and no I didn't think of your idea! It was good :D
ReplyDeleteChuckles! Apparently we're all similarly affected. No bottlenecks would mean less from the arsenal to pick from! Great observation,John!
ReplyDeleteHank
Hello Hank, thanks for visiting. I like your blogs and would love to be able to comment on your art one. Is there no comment box or am I missing something, I wonder?
DeleteI completely relate to this! Very nicely done.
ReplyDeleteThat happens! Sometimes it is nearly impossible to get the words from my brain, down my arm, into my fingers and onto the paper.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.kimnelsonwrites.com/2012/09/15/constricted/
My head is at the bursting point this morning, as well........I so relate!
ReplyDeletep.s. I LOVE the photo of the kitty in front of the fire! Is that your hearth? Glorious!
ReplyDeleteYes, though sadly the cat, Meek, died earlier this year aged 15.
DeleteI just finished mine--late--and came here to relax and read. We read each others' minds this time, LOL. I am going to water plants now without any more browsing!
ReplyDeleteI can sure understand this, and I agree with Hank, I think it's part of the creative personality. What is far worse (and it's happening to me more often) is a head with no ideas in it.
ReplyDeleteWell done, John!
K
You capture well a familiar feeling...great direction for this word, John. :)
ReplyDeletesuch an apt description!
ReplyDeleteI hear you on this. You have captured the feeling of many of us, I think. So many thoughts, and we want to find a way to get them ALL out! Nice work indeed!
ReplyDeleteThis is certainly one that I can easily relate to. It's always such a whirlwind of ideas in my brain.
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