A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Sunday, July 30, 2017

I keep reading this.

I keep reading this.

Later I come
back and read it
more. And with
never a thing

I can meaningfully
add. It is

strange and frustrating to
me, given how
the image shocks like a
deja vu, like
a recurring,
but always straightaway awake-and-fade
dream. I

know I never actually had
this dream.

Deja vu
is a memory-sensory malfunction. It is not
a combination of precognition and amnesia.

I'm afraid, in the falsely-recovered memory of this place.

Yet deeper than the memory, I know that
in the dream, I am not afraid. Never

afraid. My waking mind

knows it's all just tricks
of brain-lightning. I insist
I've never been there. I insist
I won't go back. The former

is just fact. The latter

is (I think) what scares me.

2 comments:

dogimo said...

OOPS.

This was already a poem. I work from drafts, a lot of the time - paste a text source into a draft for later, pending development into a poem.

Looks like the other was a collage poem take on the source material. I like how this version turned out, though, so I'm keeping both and adding "REV" to the labels.

dogimo said...

Earlier version:

http://apocketfulofpoesy.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-crisis-of-infinite-earths-recurs.html