Playful State of Mind
by Michael Romani

Ideas come in fanciful doodling 
Free associating and noodling
Staring out of life's windows
Watching the breeze flow
You have to keep a playful state 
Never able to really force the great

In a playful state of mind
Leaving the structures far behind
We learn what we learn as we go
Learning to see what we already know
This is how we come to identify
All these pretentious things that signify

There is great fun in pushing far
In the dreaming and reaching for stars
Taken up to the very lip of the ledge
And peering out up and over that edge
Saying all those things that need to be said
Like little voices escaping from my head

Signaled at the world as paradigm shift
It's there in the tap that gives us lift
Bringing the crazy funk to written page
Capturing the map of the lighted stage
A love song of accidental design
Words expressed silently as if by mime

Together there is out being apart
A part of each other in their hearts
There in that playful state of mind
Where all the structures are left behind
Bubbling over in legendary traces
The love of art shines through a million faces

(c) June 20, 2017  Michael Romani
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