Analysis of Return of the Brain
Oh, satellite, satellite, where have you been?
Dish it out, fill me in
On what the plan was again (?)
Are they memories or dreams
from another time? Another life?
Or a thousand DNA strands ago?
Found that window hill portal
Oh so long ago
When I fell asleep
On my treehouse couch
A million billion dreams ago.
Even while I'm wide awake ...
Mistakes still are sour cake,
Yet, still no crumbs are ever left.
Overactive imagination,
I believe it was, you said.
You wrote it in red.
Where was I back when?
I loved far, far too much way, way back then.
Yet, my wanderful brain returned today.
And, yes, I know, that's debatable,
yet, inflatable as your proud, swollen chest.
Many many minds have we left behind.
Didn't mean to lose it.
Always wanted it back.
But, it ran away without me.
Turns out, afterall, we were kidnapped.
Well, I'm not a kid anymore
& that's likely why it's been
returned to me. Hmm.
Possibly.
And just like that!
Look what's under my hat!
Made ya look inside another book.
The hope sapped from us left no more
to quench my lonely thieving ghost
Just above the frozen floor.
Today is a day that's celebratory!
My wright brain somehow found its way
Back to me.
"We left you oh so long ago, yet never meant to.
Dontcha know?
We got lost somewhere
We'd never been &
Couldn't find our way back again."
Been gone so long,
I thought you'd gone forever.
Well ... You know what they say
'bout "Always" and "Never".
Yet, it sure as Hell felt that way.
Heat and thirst had kept me there
Without a bat to beat the bear.
Calling and calling ...
But, no reply.
I still don't know why.
How long
this time
this time I pray
Can you
Can you
Can you stay?
Hello?
Scheme | aabcdefegheiijkllbbmfnopqrstarruuvtwtrmrxeyabz1 m1 myy2 3 3 z4 mxxme |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101111 111110 1101101 1110011 101010101 101011101 1110110 11101 11101 1111 01010101 1011101 0111101 11111101 10100010 1011111 11101 11111 1111111111 11110101 011110100 10100111101 1010111101 101111 11011 11101011 1110101 1110101 110111 01111 100 0111 111011 111010101 01111111 11110101 1010101 0110110100 1111111 111 1111110111011 11 1111 1101 101101101 1111 1111010 111111 11010 11111111 1011111 01011101 10010 1101 11111 11 11 1111 11 11 111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,662 |
Words | 353 |
Sentences | 41 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 62 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 1,253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 315 |
About this poem
It's a bit of a celebration and liberation from a nasty bout of writer's block that lasted far too long
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Written on November 04, 2021
Submitted by borrontoe on July 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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