The blank page meditation

                               

I call this meditation “the blank page”

you'll need a sheet of paper

preferably A4 and a pencil or pen

now tie yourself to the mast and wait

let battle commence

feel     the sirens' lure

the overpowering urge to write

hold your ground

endure

the aim     to keep the page completely blank

yet thinking mind

desperate to have its way

to mark as dog its territory does

will not let up     demands its day

caught between zero and one

in no man’s land

detached      observe the struggle unfold

manic mind doggedly insisting

something must be done

as silent self indifferently looks on

unmoved whether internal dialogue or peace

scribblings or nought prevails

sometimes a single dot is all you’ll find

after several hours of hard fought skirmishes

sometimes not even that

an infinitude of things unsaid

a page unsoiled by words

yet thick with papered over cracks

then once the smoke of half-thought-forms has dispersed

high overhead upon a yogic cloud you're perched

babbling mind enthralled

in a stream of aetheric consciousness

in communion with the gods

in a world of strange beauty     of silent verse

where paper and pen kneel down before

        unspoken OM

        wordless poem

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