I love the idea, I think it would be very compelling.

In one of my more "creative" (read manic) moods that a book focusing on Bipolar II needs to be done, and I was thinking of the title "the milder form of the disease"

(which I get sick of hearing) or possibly "levels of hell" which I guess could be used for the "bipolar spectrum" oh well, like I said, I was manic at the time...

AnnieK

Titles. First that comes to mind is "ever winding plateau"

I'll find a quiet spot in my night later and try to think up a few more.

undertoe

'Shifting Plateau' Which suggests that there is never one place that you truly are...I also like the one you suggested. Although, I wonder if 'Plateau' is the right word...People with bipolar disorder never really hit a plateau...In fact our moods are sometimes without boundaries at all, until we shift over the opposite mood which also goes without boundaries, until we shift again...hmmmmm, something to think about.

I would only invite the talented people of this board to support something like this. Remember everyone exhibits the same amount of talent in their own way. It is what makes each of us unique...Nobody wants the 'edited, polished version' of who we are , PRINT IT RAW, OR DON'T PRINT IT AT ALL. Plus it's a no brainer on the charity...an agreed amount of course...anything counts.

GLORIA, my dear friend, you only get the book "FREE", if you PARTICIPATE...which I would love to hear more of your work!

I want EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE, even you Norma...your work is lovely. Well the one thing you posted.

I will do some thinking of my own and see if can offer up some ideas...and eventually we will all come up with something that we agree on.

I also like this project because we must work together well to make it work.

Annie,

I am a manic genius...LOL...with four fictionals just sitting there waiting for my next manic phase...and 2 childrens books...LOL.

I believe it would be awesome for you to write your book...AND YOU CAN DO IT! I just know it would be good considering your posted work here.

Thanks, and keep posting.

I'm now thinking towards something like "0-60 in 4." Thinking about rapid cycling, but not everyone goes through that.

Maybe something like "A Journey Standing Still" That one needs MUCH polishing, but perhaps a worthy idea.

Just tossing out what pops into my head here:

"Gaping Inner Wound"

"Mind Fracture"

"Off to where you started and never left"

"Convincing mistruths of reality"

"Inquake" (vs. Earthquake)

OK, out of juice it seems! I'll hit it again soon.

undertoe

..."Raw" or "not at all?"

Hmmm!

Ecstasy

by James Rist

Walk toward the light--

toward the noise and the laughter!

Seek joy and delight!

Live happily ever after!

And yet....

Lonely now and lonelier still,

searching eyes in noisy places,

empty hearts with needs to fill....

But throbbing rhythm and empty faces

dwell in dark circles of motion,

seeking their ecstasy in other hands,

finding nothing in the seething ocean

except endless trips to other lands....

The silent hunter, twisted dancer,

falsely floated on neural clouds,

all alone, needing no answer,

synchronized with discordant crowds...

In my mind now, I AM the beat,

With metal lips and subsonic phrases,

and steel wings that fly my feet

through secret caves and laser mazes.

Time, and more time, inward turned,

chases through my pounding breast.

Lights blurred, images burned--

All crumbles with me to dark regress.

The oblong night has slipped away,

and one more morning reconnects me.

Sadly received, one more endless day

steals the pageant of my ecstasy.

© 2007 www.blessedtobebonkers.com

I know there is a poet inside you! You have demonstrated many times that you have a mountain of feelings. Recently your reminiscence showed a marvelous capacity for imagery.

Your constant interaction with others has given you a priceless vantage point from which to tap into the flow of life.

...and you have studied and used the language creatively and with marvelous articulation.

I like Undertoe's suggestion....

Take a word, a feeling, an image and give it some texture. Build on that texture in the way that you might fill in a pencil sketch on a piece of paper. Then make it flow toward some dramatic or mind capturing climax. ...or some irony. ...or just some wistful and melodic euphemism.

Look for instance at Robert Frost on the simple subject of walls:

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall,...."

Some time ago, I marveled, while sitting at Starbucks, that coffee has such a satisfying quality. In a few minutes, that observation became a whimsical verse:

How You Bean?

Poem by James Rist

Vichy or cola, o.j. or Tang,

Tetley or Earl Grey, iced or with milk,

prune juice or vodka--drinks with a bang,

Pouilly like gravel, Vouvray like silk,

Perrier or Evian so tragically chic,

Gatoraide in colors like beautiful blue--

So many choices--so vexing to pick--

Yet none sates as well as French roasted brew!

© 2006 www.blessedtobebonkers.com

You can do it, Norma, but it works best, and for some it ONLY works, when you do it for yourself! ..for your own gratification.

Are you ready!?

Post edited by: JR1, at: 05/10/2008 12:02

I know I am going to hit the water....but, will I come up!!!! Your encouragement Jim...is like a tonic...I am working on it.