Reaching Conclusions

I go along with the first point of view
Or voice if you prefer I say it that way
I understand, and empathise, even celebrate
The logic, the consequence
And the emotions of the argument

I am not so keen on the second point of view
Yet I do hear this also as a voice if so you wish
That the two voices are with me is hard to deny
Though this brings or creates
A greater fear, one of its own making

Perhaps I agreed too readily
With the first hypothesis
Also maybe I had an automatic rejection
Of the opposing viewpoint
Caring for my own care

I first thought
To forget all about the conflicting voices
However this gave little satisfaction
So now I let the genie free
First to myself

Then to my conscious and to my sub-conscious
Also I will still seek to talk with others

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Catch A Falling Thought

It isn’t so much the writing
No, it is more the thinking
The thinking of the thoughts
Which will turn into the writing

First off; how to create my thoughts
Then how to hold onto them
In anything like an authentic way
To catch the meanings and the feelings

Sitting quietly, comfortably
Listening to brainwave sounds
Through high-quality stereo headphones
Is one sure way for thoughts to arise

Actually for thoughts to propagate relentlessly
The very attempt to quieten your mind
Is the perfect way to build
A van der Graf generator of thoughts

But how to capture them
How to hear them to fulfilment
How to recall them, or store them
When and where to write them down

For in the darkness, or stillness
Of your meditation sitting
Your do not disturb sign
May prohibit your writing

All left then is to use a mantra
Chant out these inner thoughts
To your otherwise silenced self
Until your thoughts firmly become fixtures

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Pointer

The good feeling feels good
Coming as it does
At the end of a completed
Home-Made PhD project

Not only the completion
But also the process
Being able to accept and adopt change
Showing off my flexibility of mind

Now happy to believe
That assistance came, indirectly
By reading The Heartfulness Way
And taking that advice to my morning meditation

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Inspired

I had it in my mind
To write a guided meditation
About approaching silence

Then, in my morning meditation
With the above thought still with me
I listened to a soundtrack of distant thunder

Without too much delay, or decay
I began to think of the joy to be had
From being outside in a storm

With rain and thunder
And perhaps even a little lightning
Though mostly rain, rain and rolling thunder

I would be soaked to the skin
Rainwater would stream down my face
As bare feet squelched through the puddles

Walking without aim
Yet awash with observation
On and on my footsteps would tread

I had no known destination
Other than to be fully immersed
That is totally absorbed by the situation

Yes, there are memories
From childhood and also adulthood
First with friends, later with lovers

Now I do want to reach that moor
To lay upon the sodden peat
And sink, sink into my earth

You see I am at one with you
Whatever our issues may have been
I am here, and I do feel welcome

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Final Placement

Where will I be
When it is my time
Where will I find those rooms, rooms
I once found by being so so clandestine

The old places
Are no longer there
Or they have been changed
Beyond compare

I might be on a mountain
In a log cabin
With an outdoor veranda
For a rocking chair

The old places
Are no longer there
Or they have been changed
Beyond compare

I might be in a valley
In a mill workers house
With three narrow storeys
And pull-up stairs

The old places
Are no longer there
Or they have been changed
Beyond compare

I might be on retreat
With the Benedictine Monks
At Buckfast Abbey
Or Ampleforth

The old places
They are still there
They haven’t changed
But remained beyond compare

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