Or Is a dangerous word Or Can be this Or That Which loads both words Like a gun I Am Either Or What does that look like? Healthy Or unhealthy Good Or Bad Right Or wrong But life’s not like that Even though our brains (Which desire clarity and ultimatums and black or white real […]
All the things will be waiting The dust on the floor Comes willingly to the pan But only when swept The plants lower their leaves Pray for water The dog barks The washing lies about They’ll all still be here When you get back Go While you can *small adventure last week was very satisfying. […]
A small child leaning Against her mothers leg All those years The gentle firm hand Between shoulder blades Pushing her forward Into things Became pushing herself Doing the hard That which breaks the heart Again and again Whispering to self “A spoonful of cement” But where does it all end After all in the head […]
I listened And I heard what I have heard a thousand times before I listened And all the world sounded the same I listened and one day I heard what I was always hearing And then I learnt to listen differently And that changed everything
Old habits Cling like vines Their furry tentacles curling Pulling me back in time To get somewhere new Is not a roundabout route Instead it is through And in this Lies the problem I don’t get to change Overnight Wake up fresh and exactly as how I would like to appear Instead it is a […]
And my thoughts take me by the hand What is good today Will be too much tomorrow And we think we can trust them No thankyou Slide my hand away But who will I follow If not my own thinking? There are layers and layers I’m constantly sifting Through days where I eat too much […]
From the Audacity Blog, you can read here https://audacitymagazine.online/?p=237&frame-nonce=fbb3f7df4a
God is in the leaves that fall God is in eyes that watch the leaves that fall God is in the thoughts that the watcher is having And in between them There is nowhere That God is not Except for The restrictions and connotations of what exactly God is Such as God is male God […]
I had the privilege last week of being invited to speak on Amanda Allen’s stellar podcast Whispers with Women. Caveat: Amanda doesn’t believe in editing, this is a long rambling conversation punctuated with gusts of laughter and genuine enjoyment of our shared interest in all things health, life and the messy beauty of it all […]
Breathing through a cigarette Staring Through a filter of smoke Hands hard A little girl, fingers curling nervously Stands at her side Eyes carefully empty Except around the edges Where she watches Other boys with sullen eyes Dropped lips Glaring through fringes turned into cowlicks By damp palms shoving them up up and out of […]
