A bird sings a song But it has a voice I think That’s a magpie calling But the bird Sings its words According to choice As do I Calling in my voice Of the sky and the sea In human dialect Familiar Strange And somewhere beneath Is me Poetry Cadence Rhythm And how we are […]
My Reveries journal published on a Saturday instead of Sunday because I have lost sight of what day it is in the soup of consciousness between Christmas and new year. In Australia this time is often marked by the murmur of cricket on the television in the background and a looping thought of what might […]
I run across feathersand attribute meaningWhisper“Hello MumIt’s okayI’m still living”Circling pelicansLow to the groundFormation is oddLike my compassLatelyNorthIsSouthWorld upside downYet stillI feel the stringsFrom my heartConnect to something greater than mePulling me forwardFearlesslyAnd the pragmatist would sayI’m dreamingLost in wonderlandGrow upThere’s bad out thereYou should have seen it comingAnd I would sayI can’t explain the […]
Last night I sat on the summer warmed stone stairs at the front of our house and waited as the evening changed colour. Yesterday, I published my first novel. It feels like a long road when I say that out loud. This story has taken a long while. Not that long to write – but […]
Good morning! Today’s SubStack post.
Beware your heroes You may become them And the heroes I like Never lived an easy life Watch your admiration Where it drifts Who it casts Because the people I admire Never lived an easy life Watch your discipline and discernment Strive to make them right Because the things that I discarded Did not make […]
I awoke worried By a fiend of my brain Figment of imagination It cast no shadow as I turned on the light Nor ever will These things which make us fret Toss and turn Tumbling heartbeats in our sleep Are not real To reach out a hand is to smite a ghost The only head […]
We hold ourselves to impossible standards sometimes
I’ve never seen a bird Lose a feather to molting And continue to carry it So why do we? Wedgetails and kites in a kettle above my house.
Today’s practice I always sign off on my Reveries newsletters with “and it’s all just practice” because it is. Lately I’ve been practicing with the drone, and also with creating videos to use for our business and just for fun for myself as well. I’m not that good but each time I practice I learn […]
