Mind Sprocket

We tell stories.

Mind Sprocket gives voice to simple and honest perspectives. We publish thoughts and experiences on our world. We tell stories.

Once upon a time, three adventurers set out on a journey over many foreign lands to discover a lost treasure. And they came back with something exclusively for you...

Verse

Another Summer Come On

by Charlene Baldridge on March 18, 2008

Another summer come on like
I cannot believe I’m still here
in paradise soon outdoors to sit
how long I’ve loved this place this
park these plants this plot of land

You Are

by Andrew Calis on March 18, 2008

You are my love, my poetry,
My sounding heart and tongue;
My thoughts jumbled illit’rately
While your clear note rung.

Fireworks Love

by Andrew Calis on March 5, 2008

Love is a scale often tipped.
Love is real.
It is also, unfortunate
As it is,
Often mistaken or replaced
With acted,
Glass replicas.

Suicide is Beautiful

by Andrew Calis on March 5, 2008

A bomb hardly explodes, but glows.
And poison kills not, but grows.
Why else, when stricken, do blades sing?
And why at funerals do bells ring?