when late at night
my mind runs riot
I check to see
what it could be
too much caffeine
over stimulation
looking closely
allows me mostly
to know how I strayed
only me betrayed
by my busy monkey mind
check to see what I find
knowing the cause
gives me pause
to understand
what was unplanned
empty my mind
to unwind
stop the mental maul
so into slumber I fall
aroused 
I drink a lot of coffee, so I know sometimes falling asleep can be difficult at times. Good poem!!! 🙂
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thanks Linda, I cut back on the caffeine and never have any after lunch 🙂
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Ah yes, the ever pervasive monkey mind, though it can be (as your pic shows) in aussie idiom, the galah mind. So well said Kate.
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Yeah, early to bed and early to rise
This is something totally wise
But why when a week ends
It’s get hard to be nice 🙂
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Lovely lines 🙂 Where was this photo taken?
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sorry this is my neighbours antenna … this is right on my doorstep near Lismore in NSW 🙂
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If you see these birds everyday, you are really lucky. They are beautiful! 🙂
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I hate it when that happens! At three in the morning, every single problem seems to be so huge that I can’t possibly solve it, or even live with it. And then I wake up the next morning, and wonder what in the world I was so worried about!
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lol well said Ann … maybe I should have called it night terrors … nothing seems so bad in the daylight so why do we do it to ourselves!
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Yes, so true. We must find ways to get out of our own heads. Do things that get us away from the bad thoughts and onto something good. 🙂
HUGS!!! 🙂
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Yep. This is so true. I’ve had a creative spell and I’m still awake churning out some poetry… now I need to go to bed but I’m not tired!
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My mind constantly races…I have a hard time ‘shutting it off’.
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You make it sound so easy, Kate. But then you have been meditating for so long that you can do it. Mere mortals like me struggle to check the ‘busy monkey mind’!
Love this.
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I can relate to this too well.
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So well written!
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“by my busy monkey mind
check to see what I find”………..these two lines made me laugh out loud! exactly how I would describe my mind at times. 🙂
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lol we all have it, I’m trying to tame mine but it breaks free every now and then 🙂
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🙂 yeah………..mine is rather difficult for me to contain……but, I am working on it.
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it will improve your physical health I promise!
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So true! Sometimes our thoughts keep us up!
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Kind of strange. . . but first thing I see is that there is a few thousand dollars worth of birds in this picture. . . what people will pay to have them for pets. . .
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they are our pets, they are tame because we feed them daily but they are still wild / free … the whole idea of keeping a bird in a cage seems so wrong to me!
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Exactly, we are the culprits.
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