From Anxiety To Poetry
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“Pause Life’s race…”
“A machine is leverage…”
“Stalling on another standby…”
“Devoid of inspiration…”
“Retracing mindful walks…”
“There’s a kindly old lady…”
“The little girl plump in her swaddling winter clothes…”
“I ask of myself what is happening?..”
“To wake up devoid of anxiety…”
“Descending slowly yet ceaselessly…”
“For every dream that dies…”
“Enjoying a precious pause…”
“I have never risked to live on there…”
“Trapped in over-thought of over-anxious thinking…”
“Striding forth with a purpose so clear…”
“So many faces passing by today…”
“How innocent the sweet daisies grow…”
“The world’s gone mad…”
“A warm breeze gently scatters the sand…”
“How cheery we shall be…”
“It’s lovely outside…”
“Summer turns to autumn…”
“On Christmas Eve when I was ten…”
“I read some Albert Camus…”
“Filling with sadness…”
“«What’s my purpose?» The boy asked the breeze…”
“He dreamt of brightness…”
“Summer’s here…”
“Stray not near the lake…”
“The boy asked the tree…”
“I always seem to get it wrong…”
“She asks me how my day was…”
“Life’s an absurd circus…”
“Feelings so sorrowful linger and last…”
“Some people are so very loud…”
“Like lovers from a bygone time…”
“Along man’s time-worn castle wall…”
“At the water’s edge you’ll always find me…”
“I wonder if I am invisible?..”
“Sleep!..”
“The moment of waking where…”
“She has two hands…”
“The ebb and flow of each gentle wave…”
“Should life for me some purpose hold…”
“«And how was your day?»…”
“The trees gently shook their delicate leaves…”
“Caught betwixt the Devil and the deep blue sea…”
“Are those your footsteps that I can hear?..”
“During the night…”
“I wondered how many different souls…”
“The Wind lifted the iron-grey sea…”
“Sitting on a bench…”
“Welcome, come in and sit with me my friend…”
“Equilibrium on this day…”
“Charlotte looks out from her world through her tears…”
“The black water shatters…”
“Worrying you’ve not locked the front door…”
“So tired of the endless madness…”
“And just like that old age abruptly arrived…”
“I know you are near…”
“The weary Moon looked down…”
“In the blinking of a bloodshot eye…”
“I’ve longed for, like a child…”
“What darkness is it that spoils each thought…”
“I fell asleep exhausted…”
“I shall follow your beguiling path…”
“A lonely and forgotten room…”
“They say that to have loved and lost…”
“So beautiful and elegant…”
“Forever the sea shall summon me…”
“Those rare moments of clarity…”
“Brilliant azure sky…”
“Drifting along…”
“How my troubled tide turns…”
“Emerald ocean rolling…”
“Grieving over memories…”
“Only in silence do I perceive…”
“Arching tree-lined avenues…”
“I’ll do something for myself another day…”
“Yesterday, I weighed a thousand tonnes…”
“Where are you – my home?..”
“Every silver lining masks a blackened cloud…”
“There’s always magic to be found…”
“I’ve seen dolphins breach the shimmering water…”
“The same sea and air connect us…”
“The cracked concrete birdbath…”
“You shunned me a few years ago…”
“I closed my eyes…”
“I stared down the deep valley…”
“Ever since my childhood…”
“Let’s sit together and watch the sea…”
“Idling time in serene solitude…”
“For twenty-five years we’ve been drifting apart…”
“The Elevator would lift him high…”
“«Come take my hand and we shall depart…”
“Just like it’s a working day…”
“Home full of strangers…”
“Having a friend who’s travel sick is just great…”
“May I observe rather than participate?..”
“I dream of darkest caverns deep…”
“«Come,» said the Sea, «You have nothing to fear…”
“I’ve tried the Earth…”
“I don’t care what it is you’re going to say…”
“I searched my soul but found it was bare…”
“I’ve left you over a thousand times…”
“I saw creation at the dawn of time…”
“A penny for my thoughts…”
“Come sit and stay a while with me…”
“In my deep sleep…”
“The rhythmic slap of sandaled feet…”
“With the heaviest of hearts we regret…”
“Break my heart and wring it dry…”
“I saw rainbows of flora swaying in the warm breeze…”
“I tried to talk but my mouth wouldn’t say…”
“To feel the sun’s warmth touching my skin…”
“Take a piece of me…”
“This day I shall choose to stay…”
“Shadows and shade…”
“The Wind is my friend ever faithful and true…”
“I don’t need to summit Everest…”
“Oh Gravity!..”
“Such magic lies…”
“What mattered so much yesterday…”
“«Now sleep,» said the Wind…”
“I’ve been outside…”
“«I envy you!»…”
“On the first grey day of autumn…”
“«Have you seen the Blue Fairy please?»…”
“Brilliant photons burst…”
“A big piece of me is missing…”
“My tongue is tied…”
“With every passing day…”
“My spark was extinguished…”
“I was tripped by my own shadow…”
“I looked out of the window…”
“«Hush.» Whispers the Night…”
“So very fragile we become…”
“Filigree feather flirting…”
“Light my fuse…”
“The sun hasn’t gone…”
“Pluck a feather from the sky…”
“Go cup a seashell to your ear…”
“The flowers grew taller…”
“Letters sent yet none are answered…”
“Lantern embers glow…”
“Now wash your hands…”
“«Shall we dance?» Howled the Wildest Wind…”
“What keeps you awake at night…”
“Shades of ochre and bronze…”
“I can’t quite explain it…”
“I screamed into the Wind…”
“Failed again…”
“When the clouds descend…”
“Mind the children!..”
“I picked a very fine flower…”
“I’ve either got too much of it…”
“She shuttered weary eyes…”
“I carelessly lost myself!..”
“We shall steal ourselves away…”
“Come, sit silently with me…”
“Who am I now…”
“Do not offer me a glass of time…”
“I searched for my soul…”
“We’re never alone…”
“I could not undo…”
“If all I have is one day…”
“Ghostly ships sparkle with ivory and mist…”
“I had been praying for an epiphany…”
“There are so many black holes in the night sky…”
“Comforting blanket of opaque night…”
“Fractured hearts…”
“If there was a button…”
“I climbed my very own mountain…”
“Tomorrow will be a better day…”
“One hundred years…”
“Come doubt with me…”
“Visit the weather worn quay side…”
“I prefer to observe from the outside…”
“My precious Lilly, Daisy, and Rose…”
“I’m a whirlpool of cataclysmic calamity!..”
“Where will we travel?..”
“I remember there’s…”
“I’m a wish that’s being carried…”
“Just exactly where does time go?..”
“Let’s unshackle ourselves…”
“Nothing was before…”
“Cold water poured…”
“Wherever I look…”
“I lost my shadow…”
“What I choose to say…”
“Fields of wheat…”
“I opened my eyes…”
“Pushed apart by the miles…”
“To make your peace with God…”
“If it’s not the bed you sleep in…”
“I waited for tomorrow…”
“Open your eyes…”
“I had hoped one day…”
“I’ve been walking through my memories…”
“What else is there that’s…”
“I’m leaving you again…”
“It’s been a long and good life…”
“Another star twinkles…”
“This rise and fall…”
“Adrift upon the darkest sea…”
“I never saw the road ahead…”
“It’s funny how we keep…”
“I try to look up…”
“If am not the man I thought I was…”
“So tired of being the invisible machine…”
“Each fallen leaf…”
“A petal shed…”
“Pages of a life…”
“From my fingers to my toes…”
“I couldn’t help but notice…”
“Listen carefully…”
“Thoughts…”
“Where do the birds go…”
“Sleep little one…”
“Come, let’s share a…”
“Mother Earth, how I yearn for thee…”
“And just like that without a warning…”
“The old man that you used to see…”
“You’re more than just…”
“The weight of the world…”
“Through your beautiful eyes…”
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From Anxiety to Poetry
Anxiety: those debilitating periods when time stops, and your head and stomach are bursting with exponentially negative and spiralling thoughts and feelings of chaos, doom, and sickness. When darkness unexpectedly and rapidly descends, the world closes in, and your senses are overwhelmed by the impending catastrophe graphically imagined and entertained in every minutia by your overanxious mind. When your ability to function in any capacity resembling normality completely breaks down and you’re frozen to the spot, unable to think, unable to process the consequences of an event that has, or perhaps never will, happen. When no one can reach you because you’re pinned and immobilised under an immense burden of dread at the bottom of a deep chasm of despair that no one else sees.
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I have suffered with anxiety (the kind that’s the constant and general worry and fear about everything) for as long as I can recall. It’s there with me the moment I wake, when I go to bed and for most of the time in-between. In 2022, I became interested in poetry and decided to give it a try; not as a deliberate exercise to improve my mental health, but simply as a casual distraction from the day-to-day grind of life in my late forties. Without any conscious decision or forethought, the context of my writing immediately started channelling my anxiety-ridden thoughts, probably because my mind was always so full of them. Very soon, thinking about rhymes and poems and writing them down became a natural and comfortable outlet for my anxious energies so that they could be gently coaxed out and calmly dispersed and not suddenly explode and violently overwhelm me. The simple and cathartic acts of both thinking and writing have been enough at most times in this past year to slow down the anxiety process in me such that I may manage it, rather than have it consume me.
These two hundred or so poems are simply concentrated distillations of my observations, thoughts, and feelings, at the instance of their creation. Some are very sombre, some are personifications of nature’s elements (a very relatable theme that I very much enjoyed exploring), some are simple experiments in wordplay, rhyme, syllables, symmetry, and alliteration, and a small few are intentionally humorous. I’ll let you decide which is which.
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