Mapping Out

One more black americano

One more morning in the town

The charity shops are waiting

As the shoppers stroll around

One more time to the hairdressers

One more perm for the crown

The health food shop is salivating

As vegans and vegetarians mill around

Break out by the big-shot

Hear the fire of musket sound

Hares out there on the blue-heath road

In search of spring so I’ll be bound

All it takes is concentration

Some days not even that

The devil it is in the detail

So play sir, pray take off your hat

The radiator looks just right

Its style suits its situation

If only I was at the seaside

Instead of at home on staycation

But at least we are safe

Or that's how it seems so I am told

I didn’t bring my mobile phone

So the trail of track and trace

May, by now, have become rather cold

  

Drilling Down

The idea

Is that the idea

In itself

Is sufficient to focus on

Just as if

The idea was a pebble

To be viewed

From each and all standpoints

Even to be touched

That is

If ever we can work out

How to touch ideas

What would

The hand feel like

If plunged into a bucket

Of ice-cold ideas

Much easier it might seem

To question the idea

With some rigueur

Or fortitude

Perhaps not as a pebble

But now as an acorn

Offering the possibility

To reach its kernel

  

Here, Yes, And Now

I am in response and react mode

I read of Toblerone

I remember that I have a Toblerone

So now you find me eating Toblerone

Believe me

I am trying not to try

But if Mr Slingerland

Offers me such chances what am I to do

In another book

By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I see myself as autotelic

I write because I enjoy to write

Believe me

Even though I am not the Austrian lady

Living her iconic free-life, on the slopes

I too do have my freedoms

  

Choices

If I am

The village poseur

If I am

That counterfeit

Of a good man

If I am

How can I change

How can I

If I am not

What I want to be

I read about The Way

By a writer

Who compared this way

With that way, and

That way, as you might guess

With the other way

If I am

To find The Way

How can I

Waste time

With other ways

If I am

To become The Way

How can I

When there are way more paths

Than I need

  

How

I do four things in sequence

1. I put down my book
2. I turn on the source of my music
3. I switch on the kettle
4. I stand, wait, and ruminate

The first is a natural pause

The second is inspired by the first

Three naturally follows on from two

Four is a regular following occurrence

I do four more things in sequence

1. I end my contemplation
2. I brew my coffee
3. I choose the music
4. I pick up my book and read

The first you can imagine for yourself

The second was waiting for one to pour out

The third simply had to happen

Otherwise how else could four have occurred

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And how could one arrive at a new place

Which feels completely familiar

Trying Not To Try

Edward Slingerland