On thinking

to think thinking *

is knowing

what one thinks

may be a misconception

it may might

be knowing

or not knowing

to surmise wonder stall

is thinking

not leading to knowing

necessarily

for doesn’t everybody

think

and yet can we say

everybody knows

concrete thoughts

vapid and disperse

mental processes

may be or may not be

creative

shall we assume

we are thinkers

who dabble

in useless perusals

some of us do

some of us don’t

so what is

and what is not

who knows

there are those

who think they know

and ignore

many and most

so be it

a few may

know

and not know

they know.  

* from The rift and other poems, Sifipublishing, Cornwall, 2016.