tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post7251746912965556424..comments2024-03-28T08:35:27.826-04:00Comments on Shay's Word Garden (Poetry & Such Like): How I KnowFireblossomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-9534051292291158472017-09-25T11:02:03.846-04:002017-09-25T11:02:03.846-04:00You drug us right into the delusional mind of your...You drug us right into the delusional mind of your paranoid protagonist...excellent writing! I'm currently co-teaching a family-to-family class for NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) and I learned something new here.lynn__https://www.blogger.com/profile/03991892804149727665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-86391647193091224462017-09-23T01:54:05.362-04:002017-09-23T01:54:05.362-04:00Wow! just wow!
♡Wow! just wow!<br /><br />♡Dani Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18012898548478062463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-54448684617284708412017-09-22T18:45:30.051-04:002017-09-22T18:45:30.051-04:00This changes subtly from the semi-comic to the ver...This changes subtly from the semi-comic to the very serious, and from the mentally ill to the mentally all, in the sense that we all understand what it feels like when the person we love is no longer the one we thought he or she was, and there is something very moving about reading that in the context of the larger delusions. Really interesting the way it works and very well done. k. Outlawyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15698845661756444061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-75757989927886352882017-09-22T17:36:47.475-04:002017-09-22T17:36:47.475-04:00"And now you.
You're in league with them,..."And now you.<br />You're in league with them, don't bother to deny it." The paranoia never stops. So scary Debi Swimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08255928985823418669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-29580392469588557832017-09-22T17:34:11.710-04:002017-09-22T17:34:11.710-04:00Firstly thanks for a great prompt and your piece w...Firstly thanks for a great prompt and your piece which i think is Very good indeed, and frighteningly tragic, and I feel a tragedy in two ways, firstly for the sufferer and then the tragedy of the fact that this can so easily go unrecognised as an illness. Your notes were certainly informative, thanks for sharing.Julianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16781106976505685053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-36431998987112896662017-09-22T16:49:01.082-04:002017-09-22T16:49:01.082-04:00Excellent play on words. I've been educated o...Excellent play on words. I've been educated on this sad topic. Well done!Vivian Zemshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09588008375525403964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-56307950348811826732017-09-22T16:45:26.496-04:002017-09-22T16:45:26.496-04:00I could hear, feel the delusion of the speaker in ...I could hear, feel the delusion of the speaker in this poem. You've captured it well. My mother had Alzheimer's and she would corner me with "That man is not your father", and I would just have to take it because there was no convincing her otherwise. The mind can be overtaken by monsters of all kinds it seems.Susie Clevengerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239990133754328967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-26655673280967866512017-09-22T15:39:59.588-04:002017-09-22T15:39:59.588-04:00Well you got right inside the gizzards of this one...Well you got right inside the gizzards of this one...frightening reality to consider but you place us there temporarily...thanks goodness.Glad the 'oriental Poem' made you laugh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-87590858515583866012017-09-22T15:26:38.874-04:002017-09-22T15:26:38.874-04:00Wow -
I was not getting this until I saw your exp...Wow -<br /><br />I was not getting this until I saw your explanation at the end.<br /><br />Very powerful<br /><br />Very well done.<br /><br />Namaste!<br />JzBJazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-78492767322570646872017-09-22T11:33:07.766-04:002017-09-22T11:33:07.766-04:00The image alone was disturbing - then I read the p...The image alone was disturbing - then I read the poem! It's my cup of tea. I especially enjoyed:<br />'She even fooled the police, who scoffed at me<br />as if I were insisting that the earth is flat,<br />when all I did was to state the obvious fact--<br />Mrs Capgras isn't Mrs. Capgras';<br />'Everyone I met yesterday was wearing a Mr. Fregoli face,<br />talking Mr. Fregoli talk,<br />and plotting evil against me';<br />and<br />'You're in league with them, don't bother to deny it.<br />You Capgras, you Fregoli, you second-rate duplicate!<br />You changed, right after you bashed my head in<br />with the wooden bread keeper that used to sit on your counter'.<br />Kim M. Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16668459794787447606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-53867195698526112242017-09-22T10:18:18.714-04:002017-09-22T10:18:18.714-04:00So sad that there are so many madnesses floating a...So sad that there are so many madnesses floating around in the world. males me glad I am a bit of a loner.tonispencerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04200564195675794747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-91092336265647524862017-09-22T09:13:00.196-04:002017-09-22T09:13:00.196-04:00This is mightily disturbing, Shay.This is mightily disturbing, Shay.Kerry O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00720862912375945249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-12123634048155785902017-09-22T05:50:25.901-04:002017-09-22T05:50:25.901-04:00The manifold delusions of our time -- and Lordy, w...The manifold delusions of our time -- and Lordy, what house of distorted mirrors we live in -- allows for infinite diagnosis but little means of cure. Football players with CTE become murderers, vets with traumatic braini injury come home to commit suicide, successful suburbanites mistake their ass for a hat. Narratives like yours are tricky beasts -- how much to let the reader in on the illness -- is exactly how people go on living inside crazy heads. It also shows us how crazy each of us is. Great stuff.Brendanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03983584155125369291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-28434548781721020782017-09-21T21:15:07.347-04:002017-09-21T21:15:07.347-04:00"whether anyone wants to hear the truth or no..."whether anyone wants to hear the truth or not" - it all comes down to this. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-88560431001906513522017-09-21T16:46:43.260-04:002017-09-21T16:46:43.260-04:00First of all, thank you for the facts about the di...First of all, thank you for the facts about the different syndromes of delusions, I had not heard of them (I dug into metaphor(sis) instead. Love how you can paint tragedy in dark humor with the two different scenes. The violence in relationships is terrible in any way it shows its ugly face and every combination is under reported I think..<br /><br />Thank you for the prompt. brudberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12563403553536472377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-19670046947474887092017-09-21T14:27:13.690-04:002017-09-21T14:27:13.690-04:00NOTE TO MY READERS: Because I posted this a few da...NOTE TO MY READERS: Because I posted this a few days ago, comment moderation is ON. Don't worry, I will check pending comments frequently today, as i am hosting at Toads. Fireblossomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07040525704916368792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-14175024745502284872017-09-21T14:14:15.951-04:002017-09-21T14:14:15.951-04:00My goodness this is good! Your poem reveals in dep...My goodness this is good! Your poem reveals in depth the harsh reality behind domestic violence that in turn leads a person into the thicket of depression and paranoia. I admit my eyes were watering at the thought of that character and her suffering. Sigh.. powerfully written! Sanaa Rizvihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06681404650477409830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-9317953312416474282017-09-20T08:07:53.699-04:002017-09-20T08:07:53.699-04:00This is a novel in itself, and a diary, and a lear...This is a novel in itself, and a diary, and a learned article as well, on all the forms of distortion the heart or the hands of others can force on the mind-(-or maybe that should be the heart *in* the hands of others.) You make us look in the funhouse mirror--which is never funny--and see way more than we can handle, till everything is disoriented and distorted, then you spring that heart-anchor of a last line. Just amazing skill here, Shay, and of course, as always, your own unique poet's brush.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-33277105102072600822017-09-19T08:55:56.326-04:002017-09-19T08:55:56.326-04:00I love the depth of the poem, the way it reads lik...I love the depth of the poem, the way it reads like a movie... The anxiety and paranoia is so thick that it oozes out of each line. What terrible illnesses, those two. And domestic violence, well... that's a plague. Magaly Guerrerohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295455026184103230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-80074330593813322622017-09-19T07:14:58.226-04:002017-09-19T07:14:58.226-04:00What a powerful write! I was with her in her delu...What a powerful write! I was with her in her delusion. So. Well. Done!Sarah Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06548593069470592148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-3009073232486330672017-09-19T00:45:49.908-04:002017-09-19T00:45:49.908-04:00Wow. I am watching some of the same thinking / per...Wow. I am watching some of the same thinking / perceptions in someone i know. It was amazing, reading this.Sherry Blue Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10769154286598233146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3107838361391025851.post-82308021392090053542017-09-18T17:43:22.319-04:002017-09-18T17:43:22.319-04:00Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.... Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." <br /> Marcus Aurelius. <3Cloudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05853753108637831069noreply@blogger.com