7 January 2015

Thinking Thoughts

I thought of the thought
That I thought I would think.
An unthinkable thought
But I thought it – I think.
I thought of the thought
But did the thought think
That I ought to have thought it?
I ought to, I think.
No, I think the thought thought
That I could NOT think
An unthinkable thought,
But I thought it – I think.


I wrote this poem when I was a girl aged 10 - I've always liked a paradox. How often the thoughts we ponder in childhood become the themes of our lifelong quests.

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