A poem composed from its title, the idle thoughts of a mind unable to rest.
Fleeting Thoughts
Fleeting thoughts that come and go
Fleeting thoughts of love and lust
Fleeting thoughts of broken trust
Fleeting thoughts we cannot hide
Fleeting thoughts so deep inside
Fleeting thoughts of kiss and caress
Fleeting thoughts of untold distress
Fleeting thoughts of enlightenment, lost
Fleeting thoughts we don’t transcribe
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Fleeting thoughts we’ll never share, yet in our mind, we dare
Fleeting thoughts occur so quick
Fleeting thoughts that never stick
Fleeting thoughts told as related lies
Fleeting thoughts, our soul’s demise
Fleeting thoughts, they reach the sky
Fleeting thoughts that live, then die
Fleeting thoughts that we can’t catch
Fleeting thoughts as words, won’t hatch
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Fleeting thoughts, they are so near
Fleeting thoughts become memories, so dear
Fleeting thoughts of what we had
Fleeting thoughts that make us sad
Fleeting thoughts emotions wrought
Fleeting thoughts our hearts do wring
Fleeting thoughts, faster than the eye
Fleeting thoughts are doomed to die
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Fleeting thoughts nimble and quick
Fleeting thoughts simply don’t stick
Fleeting thoughts that flash and flick
Fleeting thoughts are far too quick
Fleeting thoughts outrun our tongue
Fleeting thoughts we try to hold
Fleeting thoughts of dreams, untold
Fleeting thoughts I knew you once
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Fleeting thoughts how to make them stick
Fleeting thoughts in my minds are trapped
Fleeting thoughts we chase behind
Fleeting thoughts we’ll never find
Fleeting thoughts we know are great
Fleeting thoughts that come too late
Fleeting thoughts of weighty things
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Fleeting thoughts, where freedom rings
Fleeting thoughts we strive for you
Fleeting thoughts, so hard to view
Fleeting thoughts to dream, as true
Fleeting thoughts we never see
Fleeting thoughts that will not be
Fleeting thoughts come to fast
Fleeting thoughts, they never last
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Fleeting thoughts of substantial things
Fleeting thoughts, eternity unlock
Fleeting thoughts not bound by any clock
Fleeting thoughts of mighty deeds
Fleeting thoughts we’ll never heed
Fleeting thoughts into words we must
Fleeting thoughts we place our trust
Fleeting thoughts to us don’t lie
Fleeting thoughts we can’t deny
Fleeting thoughts we give release
Fleeting thoughts eternal peace
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Fleeting thoughts of soul and coin
Fleeting thoughts we can’t reconcile
Fleeting thoughts meld and mesh
Fleeting thoughts two souls entwine
Fleeting thoughts of flesh, so fine
Fleeting thoughts, hither and yon
Fleeting thoughts we had, are gone
Fleeting thoughts let me find the dreams, I thought I’d left behind
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Fleeting thoughts in you I’m free
Fleeting thoughts won’t you come to me
Fleeting thoughts, my ecstasy
Fleeting thoughts will you ever be
Fleeting thoughts of self-made men
Fleeting thoughts, we put to pen
Fleeting thoughts of principle, or profit
Fleeting thoughts of nurtured souls
Fleeting thoughts of ungained goals
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Fleeting thoughts of loves we lost
Fleeting thoughts of profits, taken
Fleeting thoughts of morals, shaken
Fleeting thoughts of plans we laid
Fleeting thoughts of beds, unmade
Fleeting thoughts, our memories refresh
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Fleeting thoughts are we the blessed?
Fleeting thoughts of the divine
Fleeting thoughts of smiles, sublime
Fleeting thoughts of blood we spilt
Fleeting thoughts of mother’s milk
Fleeting thoughts of lives that end
Fleeting thoughts of sunsets, warm
Fleeting thoughts of days, newborn
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Fleeting thoughts of journeys made
Fleeting thoughts of where we stayed
Fleeting thoughts of home, again
Fleeting thoughts of winding roads
Fleeting thoughts of conscience goads
Fleeting thoughts of must do this
Fleeting thoughts of the things I’ve missed
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Fleeting thoughts, of silly rhymes
Fleeting thoughts of better times
Fleeting thoughts of truths we hide
Fleeting thoughts so deep inside
Fleeting thoughts of what we lost
Fleeting thoughts of principle’s cost
Fleeting thoughts of would we change, had we chance to do again
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Fleeting thoughts of time’s sweeping hands
Fleeting thoughts of better plans
Fleeting thoughts of hindsight true
Fleeting thoughts of what did we do
Fleeting thoughts, such salable things, from which the sale cuts the wings
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Fleeting thoughts of anguish, and pain
Fleeting thoughts of material disdain
Fleeting thoughts my belly is empty, again
Fleeting thoughts bring sun, or rain
Fleeting thoughts of teary eyes
Fleeting thoughts of angry lies
Fleeting thoughts of words unsaid
Fleeting thoughts live in my head
Fleeting thoughts, more eloquent and true than anything I can say, to you
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Fleeting thoughts without word or form
Fleeting thoughts of scent, so sweet
Fleeting thoughts depart, when I must eat
Fleeting thoughts, in you I’m free
Fleeting thoughts let me, be me
Fleeting thoughts my mask do rend, and to me, my true face reveal
Fleeting thoughts I dare not show
Fleeting thoughts to depths of low
Fleeting thoughts, where immortality resides
Fleeting thoughts they live, then die
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Fleeting thoughts to me I hold
Fleeting thoughts that go unsold
Fleeting thoughts with you I share
Fleeting thoughts I can’t abide
Fleeting thoughts I cannot hide
Fleeting thoughts I lock, inside
Fleeting thoughts that can’t be free
Fleeting thoughts I fear, are me
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Fleeting thoughts of deed, and done
Fleeting thoughts we can’t outrun
Fleeting thoughts our heart does shun
Fleeting thoughts of guilt and pride
Fleeting thoughts we can’t decide
Fleeting thoughts of law, and lie
Fleeting thoughts, of why
Fleeting thoughts of famine, or feast
Fleeting thoughts are they the ones we love the least
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Fleeting thoughts of excess
Fleeting thoughts are punishment, to come
Fleeting thoughts for those thoughts we left, undone
Fleeting thoughts we can’t contain
Fleeting thoughts of guilt and pain
Fleeting thoughts of sun, and rain
Fleeting thoughts of gray do loom
Fleeting thoughts of dismal doom
Fleeting thoughts of laughter bright
Fleeting thoughts of salvation’s light
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Fleeting thoughts, our truths reveal
Fleeting thoughts within our heart, we seal
Fleeting thoughts no other can steal
Fleeting thoughts of battles lost
Fleeting thoughts of mortality’s true cost
Fleeting thoughts of the life we’ve lived
Fleeting thoughts of what we didn’t give
Fleeting thoughts you think you know
Fleeting thoughts escape, and go
Fleeting thoughts we cannot grasp
Fleeting thoughts slip away to fast
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Fleeting thoughts of when, and why
Fleeting thoughts can make me cry
Fleeting thoughts of tears unshed
Fleeting thoughts of the life we’ve led
Fleeting thoughts of guilt and sin
Fleeting thoughts of what could have been
Fleeting thoughts we know are lies
Fleeting thoughts bring heartfelt sighs
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Fleeting thoughts that were not then
Fleeting thoughts, we might live to see
Fleeting thoughts of painful reality
Fleeting thoughts of can, and will
Fleeting thoughts of never tell
Fleeting thoughts of deceit and lies
Fleeting thoughts of crying eyes
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Fleeting thoughts skip to and fro
Fleeting thoughts will never go
Fleeting thoughts of didn’t do
Fleeting thoughts of can, and must
Fleeting thoughts of fulfilled trust
Fleeting thoughts of what might have been
Fleeting thoughts of extravagant whim
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Fleeting thoughts of hands clasped tight
Fleeting thoughts of lips, pressed light
Fleeting thoughts of intertwine
Fleeting thoughts of too much wine
Fleeting thoughts of never did
Fleeting thoughts of wanted to
Fleeting thoughts of that and this
Fleeting thoughts of unmade bliss
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Fleeting thoughts,
the dreams of day,
for fleeting thoughts never come,
to stay.
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Fleeting thoughts, so determined, and true
may fleeting thoughts come to you.
Perhaps this is a story, told in rhythm instead of prose, perhaps it is not.
Perhaps I’ll post the audio recording from which I transcribed it, perhaps not.