November Week One: The Challenge!

November Week One: The challenge!

I'll be posting poetry each day inspired by events, non-happenings, ponderings and passing thoughts. Sometimes it might be snippets, sometimes fully-formed word-scarves. Sometimes I might explain or make changes, sometimes not. After all, this is an experiment.

5th November:

Here's a little something that may turn into something more. My father said a sentence and I finished it off. 

Collaborative creating:

Pa:

Strike up a friendwich.

all these wires

and all these visions

Me:

All this static

and decisions.

......

6th November:

Awoke

        

          Slow

                   Poke

(sh)

Drag feet through

morning

to brighter

new-beginning     boxes

beget   bits   bobs

things to clear

Take your boxes

I carry mine

and will one day

share it

when the anticipated

                                    recipient

                                                 arrives.

.....

Luncheon.

Mushrooms like members.

Unexpected.

As was icecream not

clotted with the

fruit crumble.

Sometimes servings serve

in other ways

not prayers unheard

but needs and wants 

met in well balanced

nutritional dishes.

Unexpected.

And besides

we were really there for the company.

....

Welcome Evening!

Well fed

well friended

[                                     ]

now in need of space

[                                     ]

I hold my hand

companionably

as I

move into evening.

Enjoying cleaning

ironing

orange-clove experiments

(sore thumbs)

home-made christmas decorations

home-made contentment

Home - home holds me 

as I

slip into the night.

Home is held.

....

7th November:

Sunday

Dreams of angry altercations of

condiments and 

recommendations

imagined issues

reminding me to eat more than baked beans

as I remind you

to eat more than cheese.

                              A surprising subject I never knew

we never spoke of.

Am happy to let that one fall away and

I'll drink tea to toast

the fact that dreams are not real

today. 

Flights of Fancy (thoughts in the bath) 

Perhaps

the difference between

thoughts that are real and true

or of desires and disconnection

is that some fly up

gain gravity and manifest in reality

and some

just

fly up 

and 

fall to the floor exhausted

spent

for all they had

and never were.

.....

Notes: Initially this read 'or of desires and ego', which seemed too vague. I contemplated using 'lower mind' or 'lower mind kind' but this phrasing felt like a judgement was being made of higher/lower mind. Disconnection seems to fit well (a suitable sock) and, I feel, captures the notion of inner workings not quite connected to a source in truth, as well as the sense of the inner workings of a bird malfunctioning, inside, unseen.