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Ermagerd!

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By BrenPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
image by Nightcafe

i thought of something

so fine and uniquely good

just a minute or so ago

it gave me fuckin gersberms

it had four almost perfect lines

beaming straight to me

on a special frequency

of a lit-er-ary

vine ripened

fecundity

a something, a moment

so

F U C K I N G

vivid,

so gobsmackingly good

i gotta get this down

i said both aloud and to myself

and then

i can’t be sure

was this my white whale?

and me – maybe dick?

i found an illusion

inside my delusion

please excuse my confusion

i was probably

out to lunch

i felt it i heard it

i tried to share

i tried to word it

but it slipped my tenuous grasp

an instant sorrow

in it's absence

so

i rolled

another marijuana cigarette

i poured

another drink

i became

a part of my distractions

then i tried

to find

then i tried

to think

i puffed

i sipped

but the only thing that came to me

bearing in mind that this

is not a social occasion

what was supposed to be

a simple equation

evolved revolved,

a slow motion inebriation

self administered retardation

this moment has escaped me

i was looking for something

that wasn't lost

more of a misplaced for now type of groove

i looked into the space

between my ears, behind my eyes

i reached into the darkness

i looked into the shadows

i looked into my mind

and still

i try to find

those words

that got

left behind

surreal poetry

About the Creator

Bren

"It's just a token of my extreme!" - Frank Zappa

"Cause it's all in the heat of the moment It's all in the pain!!!" - Devin Townsend

Centre Stage with the wonderful Heather Hubler

I'm writing it out not acting in doubt!

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  • L.C. Schäfer2 years ago

    I loved Maybe Dick! And "out to lunch" 😁

  • Grz Colm2 years ago

    You kill me! I hope you find it, really! 😆 “Your white whale?” This will surely suffice. Uh.. this was probably my favourite bit, “that wasn't lost more of a misplaced for now type of groove i looked into the space between my ears, behind my eyes”. Excellent job Brenton!

  • It is really amazing Brenton!

  • Oooo, I really enjoyed this! Well done

  • This inspired me to write one along a similar theme… Completely different, yet a similar vein. For this I thank you. Check it put if you have a mind: https://todaysurvey.today/poets/a-momentary-grok%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">

  • K. Kocheryan2 years ago

    What a great use of words! Really liked this poem and its title

  • This is a perfectly rendered representation of a slippery moment of perfect clarity… That proverbial greased literary pig that slips from our grasp, evading all efforts at recapture whilst running circles around us. I grok.

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