Tuesday, 25 July 2023

Take Flight


Most days I stumble, stumble, stumble, crashing

into these… unthought thoughts. They manifest

themselves like heartbeats, breaths, or baffling dreams,

and like those things, they simply are.

They turn up in my mind’s departure lounge,

hoping to catch a flight of fancy (also

known as a poem). Most of them will

journey no further, having come from only God

knows where, to nowhere else: the nowhere of

ideas; placed and then displaced.

As far as I’m aware, they vanish with

as little will as they arise. Today,

there was a nothing thought; a thought

so nondescript it barely was, and yet

it flew on one of Fancy’s happy flights

and landed safely on this poet’s page.

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