Amygdala

Dear M,

Oooohhhh those dark places and monsters under the bed, in the closets and around the corners. Not sure why I’m still plagued by them as I know them now to be products of my own imagining but there they are. The insight to your thoughts are very relatable, where I, too, know how to take comfort but have begun shedding light in their direction. Great piece. H🌷

Dear H,
Thanks for the read and feedback. Yes, we can only find comfort with our own darkness by acknowledging it. I think that is why I write about it. Bless and keep shining that light.👍🏻

an internal war
an uneasy monologue

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a fine p0em on its own

a warm smile
silent lotus

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Thank you very much silent lotus. I appreciate the read and you taking the time to comment. Bless
Mel

This is one of my favorite topics--the hypervigilance & threat-over-compensation of the amygdala.
The reptile brain, concerned with the necessities of survival:  sex, food, safety, aggression, etc.
Arthur Jones, the inventor of Nautilus exercise machines, said there are 3 "routines" animals in the wild resort to when threatened:
flight, fight, or bluff.
Like the short, punchy stanzas, the end-rhymes in combination w / short lines.
In this kind of work, I might lean--eitther in revising this, or working w / other poems in a similar style & theme--toward cretic lines
-_- / -_-
or cretic feet combined with pyrrhic
-_- __ -_-
which is also a kind of alternating falling / rising of iambs with (opp. of iambs--brain lapse).

Dear Mark,
Thanks for stopping by and offering feedback. I appreciate you taking the time. Always looking for ways to improve. Bless
Mel