008 To Have a Thought

My favourite vantage point at the pit was this seat. It gives a view of the extent of the quarry - a better idea of its vastness. Somewhere to get lost in thought on a still day whether summer or winter.

I have sat here often,
head in the clouds
amused by the essence of snowfall
mused upon the transience …. of muse.

Like the snow,
such thoughts fall and build,
and before I can construct
the snowman, poem-man,
from the flakery of notion,
they thaw and flow away.

Thoughts, gathering into snow balls garnered for another day,
slip away on the ice of time.

To have thought and lost
is better than never
to have thought
at all.

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