Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Discernible ‘yes’ from word-keeps on high
Merriam says it’s clear thinking between
--confusion (sounds bad), or insanity (worse)
Those on the edges can feel what I mean
Our grand word-keeps really must justify
The mean in this meaning,
out-bounded by boundary,
lined-out by this outline,
now liminal quandary
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Webster, my friend, have you deep-thought this through?
Sanction is clear from this definite frame
-- English agrees, but is that important?
English is not the sole tongue in the game
Here is a series of queries for you
Can you margin it all out?
The hurt and the fallout?
For people who crawl out
adrift from your callout?
Not-lucid has rescued me more times than countable
And really not-lucid has caught me mid-fall
Through memory patches of pain insurmountable
Muddling dull was the best break of all
The cogent, coherent, and clean-comprehensible
Can open tight screw-capped emotional stores
Unprocessed experience, only defensible
By wool-wrapping windows, and baffling doors
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Politely diverge from Merriam’s word
Webster’s position humanely disclaim
--Gratitude-pour over fuzzy and haze
Cloud-foggy, mind-misty, heavy, mush-brain
Rational praised, but when needed, deferred
Hail shields of deep feeling
all lucid-real reeling
rewinding revealing
to heel allows healing
‘Lucid? Not always’ the kindly refrain
Outsiders rest on the inside again
And never confuse, confused and insane
Sep 27, 2024
Sep 27, 2024 at 4:24 AM UTC
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Discernible ‘yes’ from word-keeps on high
Merriam says it’s clear thinking between
--confusion (sounds bad), or insanity (worse)
Those on the edges can feel what I mean
Our grand word-keeps really must justify
The mean in this meaning,
out-bounded by boundary,
lined-out by this outline,
now liminal quandary
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Webster, my friend, have you deep-thought this through?
Sanction is clear from this definite frame
-- English agrees, but is that important?
English is not the sole tongue in the game
Here is a series of queries for you
Can you margin it all out?
The hurt and the fallout?
For people who crawl out
adrift from your callout?
Not-lucid has rescued me more times than countable
And really not-lucid has caught me mid-fall
Through memory patches of pain insurmountable
Muddling dull was the best break of all
The cogent, coherent, and clean-comprehensible
Can open tight screw-capped emotional stores
Unprocessed experience, only defensible
By wool-wrapping windows, and baffling doors
Lucid is better, so better be lucid?
Politely diverge from Merriam’s word
Webster’s position humanely disclaim
--Gratitude-pour over fuzzy and haze
Cloud-foggy, mind-misty, heavy, mush-brain
Rational praised, but when needed, deferred
Hail shields of deep feeling
all lucid-real reeling
rewinding revealing
to heel allows healing
‘Lucid? Not always’ the kindly refrain
Outsiders rest on the inside again
And never confuse, confused and insane
©2024
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge (lucid) date 27th September 2024. “Showing or having the ability to think clearly, especially in intervals between periods of confusion or insanity.”
