It occurs to me that if I had an original thought in the middle of nowhere
\nthere\u2019d be nobody to hear me out; nobody to confirm
\nthat the idea is remarkable – that my thought is genius<\/p>\n
which is why I\u2019m here staring blankly at my keyboard
\nand not enjoying myself, perhaps paddling my canoe across a lake
\nI need to capture that original idea; wrestle it down; get it on paper
\nand then hold it up above my head and parade it around for all to see<\/p>\n
I turn the light out and sit in the pre-dawn darkness listening to my breath
\nclose my eyes and watch white, ghostly figures dance across the underside of my eyelids;
\nwash all thoughts away from my mind and concentrate on the creeping silence
\nand I imagine I\u2019m out on the water, taking long J strokes to keep the canoe straight
\nthere\u2019s mist and dark evergreens and a distance shoreline, reed beds and a crane<\/p>\n
so, sitting alone, in the dark, fingers cramped, poised, airborne overtop of my keyboard
\nI glare at the motionless bird, and all its promise, hoping in some way to connect
\nto what lays before me and the shoreline and the breeze and sunlight above the pines;
\nto those primal feelings that cause us to wince, itch and mumble aloud to ourselves
\nand, in this way, I might be able to gain some perspective, and strike a new thought<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Chris George<\/em><\/p>\n Chris George has released \u201cAlmonte and the summer of 2013 that was\u201d<\/strong><\/em>, a compilation of 10 poems compiled through last year\u2019s summer months. The verses capture the expectations raised in moving into a new community and making a new start. They also include personal reflections of a writer\u2019s challenges to begin again, afresh. If you are interested in receiving \u201cAlmonte and the summer of 2013 that was\u201d<\/em> \u2013 write chrisg.george@gmail.com \u2013 and provide your e-mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It occurs to me that if I had an original thought in the middle of nowhere there\u2019d be nobody to hear me out; nobody to confirm that the idea is remarkable – that my thought is genius which is why I\u2019m here staring blankly at my keyboard and not enjoying myself, perhaps paddling my canoe…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5288,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}