He stays up all night With a cow giving birth Looks after poddy calves for all he is worth Happiness inhabiting his soul As he murmurs To small bony heads Big brown eyes And spindly legs That run to meet the one Who offers sustenance He’ll spend his day Praying for rain For the herd […]
This poem by Captain Q, I had to share. The link is below. He writes with such a dexterous grasp of humanity. The wistful words drop into my heart and make me think of the many people – that sidle along on the edges of the herd. When my Dad was alive and old and […]
Can you tell me please are my comments working? They seem to be turned off and I hadn’t realised until someone mentioned it on a prior post – I realise if they are turned off you can’t help me on this post but…if you can comment let me know Thanks
Don’t wait until you’re ready – you may never be ready. Just leap, and build your wings on the way down ..
When sinking remember This is but a brief dip Buoyancy is obtained By taking deep breaths And recalling That life is short Our journey fraught with difficulty In order to teach us We swim by learning the lessons The lifeguard is already on the way We are loved Lifted Supported Far more than we are […]
Some days the sun sets And I’m glad it’s over My smile won’t stay on Any longer I want to close the door On the last of the burning rays Shut myself away Hunker down in the cool shadowy places of my house The golden floorboards Silk beneath my feet The smell of oils Greeting […]
Luck is lurking It waits in your dark spots On a shelf Quietly gathering dust And lint Just out of sight Slide your hand in Find a $10 note from last year Hurrah! Luck Waiting for you to smile again Remember it When you’re happy it comes so easily When you’re sad There is none […]
Always there is the word It waits Nothing by itself It is neither this nor that Lying flat Devoid of any thing Lacking meaning The void stretches away as far as the eye can see The mind cannot name Anything Without word In the deep dark night When images flicker like lightening storms across the […]
Mind cancer Spreading Consuming Gut churning Body standing still Muscles locked Mind Running Spinning Can’t get off Tighten arms across chest Replies become shorter Isolating Withdrawing Can not concentrate on anything out there As inside Black holes split off And begin to devour whole chunks of my universe Disappearing Into sink holes Drift off Sit […]
[image a dark haired woman dancing in work out gear turns into an evening silhouette of a woman dancing on the beach] … Words to Poem: Why? Because I want to show them the awkward phase The bit where nothing looks perfect or easy And some looks even Embarrassing I want to show them that […]
