Silence!

AsideMay 25, 2020May 24, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper11 Comments

Words saturating Permeating Spinning tales of temporary things Which do not need to be continued Yet the words spin, drawing more from the passing thought Then it requires Words Filling the gap, they come spilling from my tongue I hear them gushing Where does the geyser lie Under the skin In the lungs? verbiage continues […]

We don’t question the sun

AsideMay 20, 2020May 19, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper11 Comments

I can feel the cords Cables Need to disable some of these lines in Snip Trimming the tree Cut the dead branches away Is this poetry? Or Is it just in my way. I’m running down the road With an indigo sky Morning stars above Asking why why why Where has my poetry gone And […]

Wind Eaters

AsideMay 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper13 Comments

Wind eaters Life breathers Two wheels down The group pulled into the parking lot Of our quiet country town Rumble of big engines Silenced with a twist of a key Lift the helmet She grinned Brown face Silver hair She laughed Bold Sun drunk Shoulders back Unzipped jacket slung sideways They looked like they were […]

Waiting for the word birds to come – Kate Duff Poetry

AsideMay 16, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper9 Comments

Be here with the cup In the soapy water Be here with the toaster As it cooks Smelling the aroma of crusty bread Browning Be here with the sights and sounds of nothing more important arising Than dust motes drifting across the room As writers we are trained to panic It is ingrained this thought… […]

The Red Dancing Shoes

AsideMay 15, 2020May 15, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper6 Comments

And around and around we go But when we choose the groove It’s a whole different ball game The revolutions and repetitions begin to work in our favour Lo and behold Progress *I started a “streak” 30 days ago – a running streak – set loop – no further no less 5.6km per day. The […]

The difference is..

May 14, 2020May 13, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper13 Comments

Two steps forward

One step back

Only this time

I don’t mind

And that makes all the difference

*I used to hate failure. So much so that I would apply the brakes constantly and not make the attempt.

A month or so ago I opened a Shopify shop – it was great fun – didn’t sell hardly anything. Today I closed it. Doesn’t bother me at all because oddly enough I don’t consider it a failure.

It was a lesson learned and now that I know how to use Shopify it will be much easier to set up next time if I decide to try selling something.

That’s all life is isn’t it? A series of lessons – what works, what doesn’t and what to do differently perhaps next time.

I’m not sure when I changed from worrying about failing to this easy breezy non concern – perhaps it was just lots of failures

Blogs that didn’t work so I shut them

Instagram that went to a thousand or so followers and then I blew it up on a whim (and regretted it – that one was a lovely gram and much more consistent and pretty then the one I currently have)

Facebook – epic fails all the time

So what? Social media is for the most part free and designed to be personally pliable straight out of the box

Whatever it is you feel you may be failing at today – don’t.

No much of a poetry post but my mind is not co operating with poetry.

It has been deep in boring office work the last few days. Left/right? Brain on brain off – I’m not sure but I’m getting a lot done in the “paid” work department so best keep at it.

Perhaps tomorrow the word birds will come back. See you then.

The misfire

AsideMay 13, 2020May 11, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper16 Comments

You’re the dead note on My keyboard In every tune I play The hollow space beneath my step The window gap Where the wind always whines I cannot get it closed up tight No matter how I try The one plate left out of the dishwasher When I swore I counted every one I missed […]

The fence that keeps us penned

AsideMay 12, 2020May 11, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper13 Comments

There is an arc Barely visible It can be noticed sometimes At the peripheral Of our lives It is created by our tastes and tendencies It is unconscious choice for the most part We breathe on, unaware of its encompassing, channeling affect on the direction of our lives It is the playlist we listen to […]

Hollows where the wind blows

AsideMay 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper14 Comments

There is a saying “When you tell someone something about yourself You give away a piece of your soul” The poet is writing Tearing off strips Bloodied inkpot swirls Type neatly across the page Here have a piece of Kate And I’m happy to share But after a time all I’m left with In here […]

Where do we live?

AsideMay 9, 2020 Athousandbitsofpaper21 Comments

Where are we building? And what? Virtual storehouse 300 posts Photos Internet ghosts That live on long after the original copy is gone Are there any originals? I don’t know anymore Perhaps we are all so interconnected Lives intersected Only by time zones Memories stored on the web Are we not avatars Standing next to […]