Unleashed

I look at the word – unleashed –

a synonym for going free-range or for freelancing it,

for taking a run and jump, and unfettering oneself from the

control and authority of anyone other than the thing that is the self or

the core of whatever it is to be me. I mean to write about

all of these things. But all I can think about is my shed.

And all I can see is that same shed – leashed up by a pair of harnessed Tom cats –

being

bumped

down my

garden steps

and being dragged off and out and along ……

Poem and image by Jay Cool, December 2024

Thinking

In a different life

She would hold her own

Be visible, viable and

Verified. Not like now when she is different just for

Thinking.

By Jay Cool, Nov 2024

Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay

Sunday Angst

Image by John Hain from Pixabay

the next day

not today

is the day

I step back from

back into

today

By Jay Cool, Sunday 11th Nov 2024

You Matter

Keep moving, walking, doing, loving,

feeling. Don’t stop

Image by Piyapong Saydaung from Pixabay

to think.

Don’t dwell upon the ones who want to see you flunk it.

Keep standing upright. And keep being you.

You matter.

By Jay Cool, June 2024

Not to Fit

Image by Richard Duijnstee from Pixabay

Sorry, they say, you are just not the right fit.

And I want, really want, to have a fit, right there and then.

I don’t.

Because then I’d be even less of the right fit than before.

What if I had?

Had a fit?

I fit. I try it and I feel it. It fits and I feel

fit. Really FIT!

By Jay Cool, June 2024

Inadequately Exceptional

Oxymorons, they teach us in school,

we must seek, find and reference,

if we want

to be identified as exceptional.

So, I find one which turns out, they say, to be

exceptionally inadequate. But

I know they are wrong, because I know the truth is so much more

inadequately

exceptional.

Jay Cool, June 2024

Image by Leopictures from Pixabay

Exclusive

Lines drawn, bent, broken and crossed

are re-straightened.

Fixed and stubborn.

Adults – not children – playing imaginary games.

Living dangerously, I make up my own mind.

And I straddle.

By Jay Cool, March

Image by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

Paranoia

Paragliding through his paranormal ideas of what it is to be a human in an alternate reality, he concludes that to be normal is not, particularly, of paramount importance.

But, still, he feels and fears the perception of others and knows what it is to be paranoid.

Even so, his heart beats faster and his pulse races with potential.

And purpose.

By Jay Cool, March 2024

Image by Astrid Schmid from Pixabay

Rage

Rage.

Rageous.

Raging it over.

Rage could be of benefit to the most

rageous of the enraged.

By Jay Cool, February 2024

Traction

To not attract

the reactive

type

is to be nudged across the void and into the surety of

old, wrinkly and non-tractable.

By Jay Cool, January 2024

Image by Pexels from Pixabay