Thought versus thinking * 12/6/12

Thinking is spitting out quips

and side bar remarks

while thoughts are arriving at a sense

that was already there

and making it now

first person presentable.

In a synesthesia way,

thinking is breezy

while thoughts have

more of a page turning,

photo album way

of coming to the fore.

Thinking is more like bees,

busy in a hive

while thoughts are more like

koi fish in a pond, surfacing.

Thinking has a need

for understanding to accompany it

as sort of bodyguard-historians,

while in the express mode,

where as thoughts already have

the icing of understanding applied

when thought-presenting takes place.

Thinking may have taken

the wrong street driving

while thoughts took

the wrong parking spot.

Thoughts have more

of a billboard quality,

while thinking has more

of a one minute

charcoal etch-a-sketch quality. 

Thinking always eats on the run

while thoughts sit at the table

to ingest and imbibe.

Thinking is running in a field

where the grass is taller

than one self

to see where one is going

while thoughts are riding a mower

while cutting the lawn, again.

Thoughts are like

an experiential etiquette

for the mind

while thinking has

a composting atmosphere to it.

Thinking is crayons

in a hot little mind-hand

across an aware page

while thoughts are like

picking individual photos

out of a tall stack

or photo album book.

Thinking is like being

in a confessional

and singing that song

that is constantly running

in the back of your mind

with made up lyrics

in the moment,

while thought in a confessional

is relating a timely story

about an incident, now anecdotal,

that had historically occurred.

Thinking has very few roads signs

to abide by

while thought travels on boulevards

and looks for arterials.

Thinking, when done

with little self-consciousness,

can approach the now inadvertently

and have innovative inhales

for unexpected rewards

while thoughts can

get tourists passes

and view the exhibits of a now

with a sense of facsimile.

Thinking is a cross breed

between tuna,

who are always under water

and on the move to live,

with otters, who when surfacing,

are always curiously at play,

while thoughts are more like

a lighthouse in a fading fog.

Thinking is like the footprints

on the edge of ankle deep water,

inadvertently splashing,

even as running along the beach

with the waves lapping

every think-stride as it goes,

while thoughts are like

a bulletin board mind-full

of memorable post-its

which has been reality blown

so hard that the post-its are now 

everywhere on the ground

of forgotten-ness 

waiting for come-to-mind pick up

and re-ordering to occur.

Thinking is more like

a bird’s use of their eyes

while thought is more like

the same bird’s use of its beak.

Makes you wonder.

Do you think that

I have thought about this,

too much?