The faint smell of wood oil Mixed with droplets of dust His thumb strokes the page His eyes are lost Worn leather shoes Turned slightly inward Are nevertheless polished laces tied in big fat bows that droop down the sides Which he stares at sightlessly wondering How long does it take prayers to be answered
Almost If only I should have Could have These words rotate endlessly In the air about the head Things we wish we could have If only Instead They are collective verbs and nouns Seen in the here and now Yet used to describe Sighed Often with regret Someone whose time we shared Who now has […]
When you don’t drink And you change your small view of the world The world opens up Waiting for life to change And not changing within yourself? Well good luck with that but I suspect it would be an uphill battle. Once you shift within yourself however things that you previously wouldn’t consider Shift, broaden […]
Walking down a path I’ve never seen before Round corners And up hills Roaming for hours With only an orange in my pocket Time stops And I can’t remember what I was even worried about Freedom is leaving And it’s arriving It may be up an unfamiliar road Travelled single file alone Walking circles in […]
Let it all fall away Come Go Stay For as long as it wants It won’t be long That song that revolves in your head Around and around And around Dissolves Replaced by another instead These things that worry you so much! Won’t in six months These thoughts that dominate your mind Steal your time […]
Blonde hair tumbling pushed back with a restless hand the chin that was so high is wilting Her insides are shining through She can’t prevent them tumbling out the things she’d normally lock away are lost now in the shout of “I’ll get the next round” And I can’t help but think happy people drink […]
I walk through this house Passing empty rooms Where my children used to sleep It feels like only moments ago that I would call “Goodnight I love you” And hear their answering replies My footfalls seem so loud In this house gone quiet And the walls With their nicks and scrapes Tell their own stories […]
I’m looking at my dog She is trying to be cool But her tail is beating overtime Giving her away …I’m so glad I don’t wear my heart on the outside
Footprints follow wherever I tread Ink flows on the paper Trailing dreamings from my head And heart We leave marks Songlines Tracks Leading back A child’s sandcastle is gone on the tide I watch it fall Wondering what is the point of it all All this writing Stringing words together Creating pictures Leaving marks On […]
Thoughts Grazing upon each other Cannibalising potential As it rises Defeatist surmises That it’s probably not worth the bother How can this be the first thought That pure awareness produces Reduces The beginning of a day To some The day is over before it’s begun The optimist pipes The pessimist gripes And the realist just […]
