W3 :: The wheels in my mind

The wheels in my mind go 'round and 'round
'Round and 'round, 'round and 'round
The wheels in my mind go 'round and 'round
anxiety is skyrocketing

My mind goes back and forward
back and forward
My mind goes back and forward
anxiety is skyrocketing

A decision needs to be made
this way or that way
A decision needs to be made
anxiety is skyrocketing

Indecision and what-if
making me crazy
indecision and what-if
anxiety is skyrocketing

Overthinking is stressing me out 
nothing is perfect
overthinking is stressing me out
anxiety is skyrocketing

Unstuck and go ahead
ahead and ahead
unstuck and go ahead
anxiety is skyrocketing

W3 – Deanna’s prompt: Mother Goose Muse

For many of us, our first introduction to poetry came through nursery rhymes — those strange, playful, memorable verses we heard long before we understood what poetry even was.

For this week’s W3 challenge, you are invited to use a nursery rhyme as inspiration for an original poem. Your poem does not need to rhyme, and it may be written in any form you choose, but please try to keep it to no more than 24 lines.

You might:

  1. Incorporate a nursery rhyme character into your poem — as narrator, subject, symbol, or inspiration.
  2. Borrow or adapt an opening line from a nursery rhyme.
  3. Simply follow the memory of a rhyme wherever it leads you.

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18 thoughts on “W3 :: The wheels in my mind”

  5. Nicely done! Now I’m wondering if I might start hearing it in my head when I next get stuck trying to make a decision. The comic relief might do some good.

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