Teamwork

Another rap across the knuckles for not keeping the journal up to date. It's not like there's so much going on that you can't find the time, it's just that, as yet, the ritual, or the habit of contributing to the journal has. not bedded in.

Unlike meditation, which is kept to religiously (non-pun intended), with its own time, and place, and purpose. Maybe that's what's missing here, a purpose; should it be something to look back on in my dotage.

Or does it need to be more of a here and now purpose; perhaps to make me smile, or at least to be questioned about what would make me smile. Maybe I could make it a question and answer visitation.

Image courtesy of Arno Senoner on Unsplash

Along the lines of: what did you have for breakfast, or do you want a coffee, or how does that video look now with the music added. To which I would reply: bacon and eggs, with a slice of brown toast, buttered; yes I would like a coffee; I think the music helps, even if it isn't my own.

But then to tell you snippets of news, such as yesterday's session of Goethean Psychotherapy, which no doubt influenced the opening images of this morning's meditation; red markings on black background, coming from the red straightjacket clamped around my head, for those of you who need the detail.

The poem is now a video poem on YouTube:

If Not Used

Tonight, not quite

As darkness falls

The frost not thawed

Or if thawed

The frost re-frosted

The bronze

The marble

The tin and tambourine

Land of winter’s

Silver screen

The thoughts

Not thawed

Or if thawed

Thoughts re-thought

Soldiers, statues, fields

Of fallen clay

Tomorrow

Not quite

More any other day

As darkness falls

Ammunition

Unused

If not used

At least you tried

Or did you lie

The iron

The stone

The crimson

Canteen

Lost land of winter’s

Mist on mean

Chords of electric

Wire, unused

If not used

At least you plied

Or did you

Simply deny