en medias res

in the middle of
things

is where we are

our mood
is lethargic
our awareness
blunt

if we don’t get
off our asses
we’ll be point
of the hunt

wasted days
wasted nights
running for stuff
how much can
we carry

some have so much
it’s pretty damn
scary

my wants are small
my needs are few

enforced insanity

never followed
that cue

en medias res
in the middle of things

we crawl on the ground
cause
we don’t have
wings.

About This Poem

Style/Type: Free verse

About the Author

Country/Region: USA

Favorite Poets: Wallace Stevens, D. H. Lawrence, Charles Bukowski, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Joni Mitchell, William Shakespeare, Basho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kelly Marie Hayner, Susan Wydville. D. Phillip Caron, Elizabeth Bishop.

Comments

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Thank you, Shirley! Victor

Thank you, Shirley!

Victor

judyanne

14 years 8 months ago

a great write

but
'if we don’t get
off our asses
we’ll be the point
of the hunt'
doesn't quite do it for me....
it seems to waver from the point of the poem

just a suggestion (and just me too mind)
how about sometning like?
'our mood
is lethargic
with blunted
awareness

there'll be
no point to anything
if we don’t get
off our asses'

i absolutely love the last stanza
love judy
xxxx

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Judy,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it just doesn't go with the rest of the piece. I would have to rewrite the whole piece around it, and how it reads now is fine with me.

I liked the last stanza, too, thanks.

Victor

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Judy,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it just doesn't go with the rest of the piece. I would have to rewrite the whole piece around it, and how it reads now is fine with me.

I liked the last stanza, too, thanks.

Victor

Victorclaude

14 years 8 months ago

Judy,

Thanks for the suggestion, but it just doesn't go with the rest of the piece. I would have to rewrite the whole piece around it, and how it reads now is fine with me.

I liked the last stanza, too, thanks.

Victor