It’s a precious commodity And it leaks And leaks And the days speed up and the nights as well But what are we achieving? So much endless weeding And not seeing the results Because the sewing takes time too And there are so many weeds and they grow over night To do To do To […]
Somebody asked me once Do you ever get worried you’re just going to run out of things to write about (on the blog) And to be honest I’d never thought about it But here’s the thing Do you ever run out of things to think about? To talk about? Well how can you run out […]
When all the world is closing in The curtains sheer The walls too thin And fingernails scratch Down the backbone of your life Notice the spine How it bends and twists And notice the gaps The space between Notice the breath how it moves within Noticing noticing everything Now My friend My very best friend […]
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Love is patient Love is kind Love is not envious Or rude … Except it is sometimes It is all those things And yet we still call it love Pick up the phone when it rings Slam it down Get angry Hurt Confused And I really wish Corinthians had written about that Told the truth […]
We are born alone And we die alone At our happiest and most triumphant We are alone And when we at our most forlorn When we mourn We are alone too These moments are when we are closest To the heart of who we really are Either becoming Or going Arriving Departing Heartfelt and excruciating […]
To bend a stick breaks it If pushed too far Everything snaps It’s who we are Real things Are fragile The neck of a bird That flies into glass The necklace I pull in anger And the pot That drops On my clumsy way past Behind all these things And in everything that we do […]
This is exciting stuff. For me at least – you all are about to get spammed – but just this once. 🙄😁😂 Remember how I wrote that post a week or so back about Kicking your own donkey (if not – a quick recap – it was about shifting paradigms and why it was important to […]
Why do we hoard it Saved for a rainy day A special thing Sacred I blame religion Worshipping just one deity In trying to love only one person, one family, one thing We limit ourselves Why not love a community A country A world Everything And everybody Why not love all those that are unloveable […]
Blind man walking Take me there I hold your hand I breathe the air Tap tap tap Back to the lesson Learn it this time Close my eyes Subconscious rises Tap tap tap Blind man walking Follow the guide Trust in the cane His shuffling stride Tap tap tap Out in front dwells What we […]
