Like one of those adventure games where you go off questing in different directions but you don’t advance like the others. You earn pretty medallions gallantly while other players buy, sell and trade at market to get ahead without moving an inch. Slow burn…hey? You’d rather keep your dignity, or try to figure out their game. That’s where you really get lost. Game full of misdirects leads right back to start over and over. You could have stayed on your quest. Now, you have this.
Redacted, censored, gaslighted…must be doing something right, my old boss would say. I’m not a sociopath, he tells himself. Equal parts, then? Mom should have had me tested. Because, life of turmoil produces stuff like this. Not going to call it beautiful agony…it gets a bit ugly.Tap on them. It’s part of the quest…see where I’ve been; see who I am:
Right. I redact myself. The beautiful mess you made. Who are you?
If I’ve been denied the right of knowledge, I’ve earned the right to judge.
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Without knowledge, who’s to judge?
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No gavel; no voice.
"...politely reedy but ambitiously eclectic—moving effortlessly from hen-picking and bottleneck slides to a full deck of chucka-chucka rhythm figures."
I had a lover's quarrel with the world - Robert Frost
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I'm sorry you got caught in the middle.
*Neurodivergent poet.
*Don’t judge/hate. I love.
*Honesty without mincing words.
*Dump your prejudice outside my door. Hope you leave it on the way out.
*Nothing to fear but people who surround themselves with rules, can’t be touched.
*Real dialogue accepted.
My words collect, arrange on a kaleidoscope spectrum. The true experience/acknowledgment of my writing yet to come...long after I’ve left WDC, am dead, or both.
Truly been a blessing, but I've been pushing it — envelope, push world and all inhabitants away, push buttons to find boundaries, having no clue or told where they lie, where I've lived in your dark. Now and then, push dirt out of this hole; someone/thing/entity might envision me the way I need to be viewed. (if I knew what that was. Cryptic, I know. Try living in my dark, find comfort amid the strange, virtual walls that tempt me to try).
*The parenthetical lawyer up?
Foot free, I’m all over the place.
"Note: Poetry: life’s little interruptions amassing int..."
Best Poetry Collection 2X, nominated three years. What does it mean? I was enjoying myself, head bagged. A happy idiot. Something messed with that. I won’t be a coward; not starting feuds or wars over ideals and beliefs. We all know that’s a pile of crap packaged with dreams of pretty things to sell the next boob that walks by. 
Been more than I could imagine or expect. My achievements aren’t going on a LinkedIn wall. But, I get it. You're sick of me. It's how I feel about myself when I dig deeper, push boundaries. Don’t care my words that aim for honesty, either brave or veiled cowardice, flinchingly flung, inadvertently hit a target. Get a back off shoulder shot for asking your motivations to write…won’t get me to bend over backwards to appease, again.
There’s no prize to eye, not properly incentivized. So, does it mean when dealt the worst two cards before the flop, do the best with what you got? Yeah, rigged. Yeah, other tables — other ‘games’. But, something in my gut I’ll never be rid.
My Pluggers:
You are an icon here.
You suffer, but you suffer brilliantly. Wow, what a great writer.{/blue}
It’s like plugging myself, but using other people’s (reviewers) words…Review of "Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋" 
Your poetic muse is on fire!  Some great emotion, well-balance(d), lovely lyrical qualities -- even the ones that were written out of sadness or anger came through in a clever cadence…It's obvious you've put a lot of work into each entry and the totality of the blog has eye appeal. 
Published four times with one a literary journal, including…  " The Tender Core (Sedona)" 
I don’t submit because it’s too much work. Truly alone, know no one cares to show they believe/support me. Lip service feeds delusion. I’ve seen a lot of smoldering and snow. Try not be cynical, work hard at openness and consideration — work, sooo…gut thing.
Love my process constructing and sharing visions in words collected (no small task considering personal and physical limitations, see below).
August 28, 2006 this blog opened ▼
Going forth, I’ll attempt to document my daily life, experiences in hopes to rediscover my past through old journals to bridge last 15 years of a writer’s life.
Hope to reconnect with my endeavors, carry forward, now that I’m home with kids, unemployed and legally blind from glaucoma. I'm rebuilding this old motor, mount in a clunky, rusty beater of brain, before setting course for a horizon full of misdirection, construction, detours, off ramps and other hapless excursions — put the past in rear view. It's only an automatic; don't get too excited. Oh, no seat belts…or air bags, or 'oh shit' handles, because this baby can still rev rpms to rubber black a road.
I travel light, don’t consult maps or ask directions until really lost. Not unaccustomed to small talk with strangers, getting a feel for ventured countrysides. I like to really know these towns and cities, rivers and lakes, mountains and hills — anything thrown in my path.
Now that I've drained the gas from that metaphor, (Gasp!) throwing this thing into gear. I hear gravel under my wheels! Have to stock up on some Pennzoil. Okay, done. Ah...that's pretty much it...for now.
ADDED: This may be just about basketball going forward (6/2018) and boasting to help appreciate what I still do, legally blind, aging, with shot knees, and psychologically truncated as neuro-divergent with ADHD (among other things).
No specific aim going forward (2014) ▼
I've hammered away at this glass with forefinger since resurrecting on iPad in 2014. Always ready to say too weary, compulsion compels where instigation informs. Bright, full of dark, hidden colors and shapes I reveal as my truth unfolding…into what?
I’ve heard what’s said and what’s unspoken and struggle inside a neurodivergent bubble. Part of my dues as human? But, getting through it, somehow.
Restrained, not always easy to understand. It will be clear someday. Hard, but hide in my heart, making no apologies going forward. Not interested in the trap of stereotypes. I leap out of your box constructs before they close. Responsible for my own emotions, can only do for me when it’s tough times…translate?
This is my pulpit. I'm no preacher. Beginning anew in 2020/2023, maybe I am!
The common denominator in all unfair aspects of life by choices made, surround myself within thorny walls of indifference I dare ascend time to time. I scar, like a good challenge, rebuff conformity.  Realize someone somewhere (everywhere and anywhere) has it worse. You won't hear me drowning out their cries. I confide here, look for others who relate. I question what drives me to share, need to be understood with this obtuse, oblique language. No amplifier or soap box needed. Joy is in doing the work, connecting dots in brain…puzzles I forget, repeat. It's catharsis, this discipline called writing. I assume that's why we're all here…?
What I used to say: 'Maybe, I just don't get it. Watch me fumble with my version of reality, expose ignorance as truth. You don't have to get me, either. But, wish someone would explain me to myself.' Now I say:  Now: I was such a whore.
This is old….
What? Oh, this? A rhetorical, self-motivational speech I'm working on.
Don't just read the parts to construct your theory, as if to confirm (construed out of context) your opinion, mentally-stunted Neanderthal. Therapist wants me to be less negative toward myself. I see it as attacking, rather than being defensive. Fear I will chomp too many bullets unintentionally sent toward the unsuspecting.
If you can be triggered for stupid reasons, then I?
…just looked like me rolling around on the floor with myself.
 
What Was NEW
Who am I, you ask? My mirror knows that question, repeated daily.
Just trying to create a little buzz, not boost my ego.
 
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Can you believe it took this long for someone to put a quarter in me and push the button GET ANGRY?
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...Best Poetry Collection (apparently) on Writing.Com. 2020, 2021, 2022 below:
This starts with all the 2022 poetry:
{dropnote:"344 blogged poems — public or community shared...lots more in private"}
DECEMBER    — 21
" Patience"
" Riddled Buttercups"
" Pluck"
" neurodivergence on ADHD"
" The Unworthy Garment"
" Luck Favored One"
" fishbowl"
" thank you, To The Point"
" mittens on hearts"
" Poetry Pecker"
" What's So Perfect?"
" Long, Long Road"
" Untested Melody"
" With The Gas On...I'll Not Ignite"
" What Genre Loneliness?"
" Sculpting repeating"
" the flaw in our beauty"
" How To Digest…You/Us"
" Untested Conversation"
" Floating Back Tide"
NOVEMBER   — 11
" Reflecting Mortality"
" Bottle-Nosed"
" Little Gourd"
" buds of chrysanthemum"
" All November PPC Prompts Completed" (4 poems)
" Vague Honesty "
" Crispy Crab "
" A GROUNDBREAKING ADVANCEMENT IN THE FIELD OF OBSOLESCENCE"
OCTOBER    — 30
" Glass Lit"
" FROSTED"
" Dark Crusade (Provoking A Mind To Ramble)"
" When You Woke"
" Binge In HD"
" Tub"
" Vente-ish"
" What’s in … My Name?"
" Scatalogical cat trapped with poison flask"
" Diamond"
" Breaking A 4th Wall: Beam Me Back"
" Sugar For A Black Cup"
" Haloed and Crafted"
" Matching Pitch"
" white monuments in napalm"
" Instant Eternity With(out) You"
" Orbiting Void (physics of an unknown humanoid)"
" Conferred - After Rot"
" Reload"
" stormy endings REWRITE"
" as far as we get"
" funneling tunneling or whatever"
" …on the chin"
" Promptly Poetry Challenge (weeks 13 thru 17)" 5 poems in progress
" Rough Man"
" it shatters (rhyming)"
SEPTEMBER    — 29
" Love Is Splinters"
" Before The End"
" The Four Corners Of A Mind …" Honorable Mention, Shadows and Light ![Merit Badge in Shadows and Light
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" Building A Fire"
" hurry up and go slow"
" what am i if not a nut?"
" Nature Takes Course"
" So Much About XXII"
" ALL Promptly Poetry Entries for September" (4 poems)
" Fried"
" Before You Swing..."
" (Un)Fulfilled"
" Lower We Go"
" Through The Marrow You Still Go"
" Internalized Unexamined "
" cEnTo aMeRiCaNoS sTyLe"
" Rewrite of 8 by 10"
" The Whispering" 1st Place Daily Poem 
" Kit Contest 1 - Haiku"
" Cake Allegery"
" Don’t Call Me Noah"
" Reordering Sarah"
" No Holiday"
" Carry"
" Attuning to the forks of you…"
" Wake" 1st Place Shadows And Light ![Merit Badge in Shadows & Light II
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Brian,
Congratulations! You won 1st Place in [Link To Item #shadows] with your fantastic poem, [Link to Book Entry #1037176]. Fabulous writing!
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AUGUST  — 9
" CAMERA"
" landslide of time"
" That Sound (Breathless Poetry Series)"
" The Fence"
" Promptly Poetry Challenge - August (Weeks 4-8)" (5 poems)
JULY 💥 — 19
" Wall -Mounted (Longing Look)"
" Buttercup Road" 3rd Place Shadows and Light 
" Invalid Entry"
" Ball Of Yarn - Tighten Up"
" Secrets in the Deep"
" Hung To Dry/Yet Another Impulse"
" Steeped (In Your Song)"
" Open To It (lyrical)"
" Futile Mastery (Point Of No Return)"
" Promptly Poetry Challenge - July (weeks 1-3)" (3 poems)
" Loving A Beautiful Dreamer"
" Label My Buttons"
" Built To Soar, Harder The Fall"
" So bad"
" Packed"
" Reflecting"
" Saving Heroes & Me (Saturdays)"
🎣 JUNE 🐟 — 39
" Worldwide Birdbox"
" Powder Keg"
" Tortured (by a revealing song)"
" Self-stamping"
" Unfed"
" The Tender Trap…"
" better than crap"
" Black Lagoon"
" Breakthrough…Neatly Filed Away…for another day…"
" In Grass Where War Reigns"
" The Disillusioned Illusionist"
" Dear Sunshine (Elephants Have Ears, too)"
" Gripped (unfinished)"
" Another Day Drowning"
" Being In The Moment (Quiet, Not So Easy)"
" Cheating Death/Fighting Life"
" Fuzzy (lyrics in progress)"
" Try Again…"
" Kicking Toward A Quarry"
" S.O.S. I Guess"
" If The Crown Fits"
" Working through it."
" Walks In Snow"
" Blackout"
" When You Glowed"
" Tale of an Eraser "
" The Dehumanization (Your Cow, Apparently)"
" Sucking (It) Up"
" Painted (Printed Commitments)"
" Publishing and Fishing With Poetry "
" Another, Aim"
" If You Flip, I’ll Light The Way"
" Lifting Them Up/Marking Nothing"
" Hung Up On Something."
" In Love With A Cactus"
" list like a bucket"
" Tempting Confectioners (Have A Cookie & Shut Up)"
" River"
" Sobering: Fade (cover) - Freya Ridings"
 MAY  37
" Invalid Entry"
" Smoked Cowboys"
" Restful (Final Journey)"
" Criminal (18+)"
" Rambling Metaphorical Oratory Before Obituary Sanctuary"
" Disturbed"
" What You Ingest Like Poison"
" Dramatic"
" Bathing (Until He’s A Man)"
" The True Blind (Dear Angel)"
" Angel Who Doesn’t See"
" True Monsters/2nd Act"
" Obituary"
" Selling Hope"
" Rewrites: Sedona / War Of Youth / Prose And Dead Men"
" Song Of The Recluse"
" Lost In A Crowd"
" Our Jesus, The Devil (formerly: Some Jesus)"
" Maps Revisited (Freya Ridings Cover of Yeah Yeah Yeahs)"
" Delicates (Softly Worn)"
" Freya (My Castle For Forgotten Memory)"
" No More Games (song for the narcissists)"
" Wild Love"
" The Clicking"
" A Craving, Cooling"
" Capturing The Sound Of Life"
" Using False Language As Truth"
" Commit Enough For Now"
" Purpose The Pushcart"
" Illumination In This Dark"
" The Truth of How and Why"
" Cars And Trucks (revised)"
" Wild Summers Captured" ![Merit Badge in Coffee Award
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" Beauty Rest"
" Carving Knife " 1st place PoetTrad  { 2nd WhatContest  3/3
" Without Words"
 APRIL 56
" pinwheel"
" conceding to tides"
" aimless"
" Cacophony of disharmony - work in progress…as all are"
" nailing it (unembellished) "
" Weight of Words"
" warp of white rooms "
" In Death"
" How We Could Sing"
" Destroy and Weep Wonderfully "
" Constricted "
" Poe-eh-try"
" if i could, would i?"
" while you're so golden..."
" when i feel dead, there's you"
" Love Substitute"
" Pretend (the long halls)"
" Arming Agua"
" time won't give up"
" nice ass"
" The Delay"
" tender"
" Under The Throw" Honorable Mention - April Taboo Words
" April Fool"
" what is this about?"
" you undressed me"
" Worth From Nothing"
" Crown-Spun"
" No One Said 'Hostage'"
" Save me from my own boredom"
" Unanimated"
" Spring Already"
" Unassured"
" Write To This"
" Talk Too Much or Be Scripted"
" Aim Of The Moon's Glow"
" we all die, some don't suffer"
" Burning Questions Unanswered "
" West Philly!? You Still Watch Oscars"
" Closets"
" Price of Fashion"
" She Talks To Angels"
" Re-Emerging"
" Statue of Man"
" Recess Access"
" Skipping Memory"
" My Bunker"
" newspapers #breathless #poetry #adhd"
" The Twenty Years Screwed #breathless #poetry #adhd"
" Moot Question (Gibberish) #breathless #poetry #adhd"
" Norah (Ever Or Again) #breathless #poetry #adhd"
" Growing Up Is Death #breathless #poetry #adhd"
 MARCH 53
" Morning Mirror"
" What Does She Need From A Boy?"
" In Love With A Pyro"
" Invalid Entry"
" Hostages of Conformity #breathless #poetry #adhd"
" Another Cannons-inspired Write today?"
" Irish Rhythms"
" My Aim Is True"
" Steadfast, Dear Poet"
" Wobbling Season"
" Bite Nothing"
" Brain Food Fed"
" Two Stones In Water"
" Cruise Control"
" The Cavernous Mind"
" Stormy Garden (Goddess Who Inspires Beauty)"
" Half Past Moon"
" Blood Clot To The Brain"
" My Penis"
" Brown Returns"
" Heavy Is The Face...(Spare A Candle)"
" Wobbling Season"
" The Skipped Parts"
" blood journey"
" Tales With A Moral Await"
" Valentine, I'm Not Him"
" As My Own"
" The Sluice"
" j.d."
" Play The Slots"
" Why The Bother? (Less Than 200 Words of Your Time)"
" Deep In Glass"
" Finally Free?"
" atoms family"
" Moot: Hold It Together, Mother"
" Aim, Misfired"
" how i don't integrate"
" Amber Light"
" muddled"
" How Much I Need…"
" Play Land: Closed Forever"
" Change The Rhyme (Pop Syndrome)"
" The Spun"
" Just A Game (hungry wolves...I pity them)"
" Unhealthy Obsession "
FEBRUARY 26
" Godless Eaten"
" Torn"
" building blocks and popping corn"
" In The Dark Jar #dark #death #selfworth #purpose"
" Romantic and Lonely"
" Here We Go Again"
" I am I"
" Buried (in thought)"
" when the tree comes down"
" ...but you're not there "
" Not So Much As A Bare Toe "
" Paper And Glue #rejection #love #youth"
" The Tool"
" A Container For Something"
" Be-Feathered"
" Arizona Night"
" The Merit Of Looks"
" A Snowman’s Purpose"
" Nearing The Confession Of Death"
" The Last Draught Of Red"
" sorry dad, I was a kid"
" Bitterness Is Final"
 JANUARY  18
" Crown Of Leaves"
" The Game Is Mine"
" Ode to an ode: Stay Forever Immortal, Again"
" Blank"
" The Other Side"
" Blah Blah Poem (UNawarded)"
" Atom: Rebirth Unproven"
" BoomEranG"
" Pot Of Hope"
" Flowing Brooding Blood"
" Decaying Words Buried"
" When Again..."
" My Bucket: Lowered"
" My Everest"
" Morning Drift #black #death"
The Best Poetry Collection on Writing.Com ▼for two years (2020 & 2021) housed here, according to voters of WDC Quill Awards:
For me, the love is in the process of constructing and sharing visions in words (no small task considering personal and physical limitations. Take it for what it is. It’s an HONOR I will try pay back and forward:
 Best Poetry Collection
Best Medium Length Free Verse Poem "Rewrites: Sedona / War Of Youth / Prose And Dead Men"
Poetry is serendipity, and a mystery. I keep writing, hoping I'll find what I'm looking for. But then, I just move on to the next. You’d think I’d publish, again.
2022 Awards/Writing Merits
(Many contests stopped judging, other monthly and quarterlies closed, while others continued accepting entries without awards. Even Schnujo stopped mid-contest for some unknown reason. My offerings were shut out the last 3 months of 2022 and won't enter contests, preferring activities like that of Lilith of House Martell  . Very thankful I did.)
          
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This poem took a different direction from all the other entries, and I loved its originality.
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2021 Quill - Best Free Verse Poem "A War Of Youth "
2021 ~ Every Poem From Year Linked Below
Final tally: 259 poems in 2021...27 writing awards acknowledged...sometimes, I miss something.
(*NOTE* Sometimes, poems are set to public, for member, or private. Happy to know if anything is accidentally blocked from view.)
December...13 ▼
November...8 ▼
October...13 ▼
September...21 ▼
August...21 ▼
July...30 ▼
June...62 ▼
May...33 ▼
April...25 ▼
March...18 ▼
January/February...15 ▼
"What Dreamers Scrawl From Fleeting Memory" Shadows & Light Contest entry (January, 2021) Honorable Mention (2020 penned)
2021 Awards/Writing Merits:
     
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2017-2022 Blog Poetry Links ▼
The 2020 Quill award is for my poetry blog (collection of poetry), "Life’s Little Misdirections 🥀🦋" .
Where little dreams go to die...a gentle clutter
clumped and cloistered
begging for air
as the dark sun
hides on that
18th degree
rotated away
from me as I melt
into fertile ground
amid the waste
that shouldn't be...
I offer links to mainly raw, unfinished work from two primary blogs. I reveal the blemishes of constructed words, at times, let viewers in on my process (mainly in free verse ), some aimed for soul's perfection only to ramble (like this sentence). I do revisit and edit (notations added) these entries, attaching comments, as needed. Perhaps, one day, I will harvest the best for a book.
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*Done adding links here as of 12.31.20. A more focused 2021 collection is in the works and will be linked in future. Look in blogs for anything newer than poems below:
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"no aim"
"Fleeting Visions"
"in the white"
Here Comes October...61 ▼
September...72 Poems ▼
August...53 Poems ▼
July...28 Poems ▼
June...13 Poems ▼
May...26 poems ▼
April...30 poems ▼
March...22 Poems ▼
February: 42 Poems ▼
January: 35 Poems ▼
Poetry was taking on new form for me by the end of 2019...
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2019 Blog Entries ▼
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2018 Blog Entries: ▼
2018 - The Quiet Ones ▼
All that static clings here:
About 2017 poems —
When I'm restless and words swirl an addled head, I blog to hopefully set them free. But the process only alleviates suffering temporarily, as I offer again and again.
Like I tell people who visit these words, I offer raw and unedited (reserve the right to go back and change or just harvest to create items for my portfolio)...
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