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"content": "<h2>in memory of a thought</h2><pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">How many thoughts lie yet in wait,<br>slurred honey-thick on sheets of gray,<br>dancing, dripping languidly?<br>How many songs remain unsung,<br>uncrystallized, unrung?<br><br>Here on the surface, all we see<br>are those solidified in time<br>and plunged into the self-reflecting pool<br>with ripples cast upon the brain – <br>how many verses lie in wait,<br>robbed of their refrain?<br><br>A thought is like a drop of pitch,<br>tantalizing, trapped in time,<br>a mote of sap extruded from the vein -<br>and not to find its home again.<br>A thought’s a flicker that escapes a blaze,<br>a soft scintilla tracing out an arc<br>between a tinder and a spark,<br>a bit of bitumen, a drop of flame,<br>a ball of gently flowing wax <br>with warmth its melting candle lacks.<br><br>For all its slow and steady glaze,<br>a thought’s a brief ephemeron;<br>beneath the brain’s relentless waves<br>there lies a sea of scattered bone.<br>A thought’s life is a moment’s span, <br>a droplet scattered by the storm.<br><br>For all the thoughts that drop your way,<br>be grateful, for beneath your grasp<br>a million wait yet to be free;<br>in chaos borne, they flutter by –<br>for every thought that comes to mind<br>a million of its like will die.<br></pre><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seanpatrick.phd/tag/poem/\">#poem</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://seanpatrick.phd/tag/poetry/\">#poetry</a></p>",
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