What words do you live by? What words do you allow to accompany you in this life, and which have you erased from your experience? When you give your word, which word is it exactly and where does it spring from? Who do you allow to keep it, keep parts of you? Because our words, […]
Tangled up and talking nonsense The minutes slip away Old friends Sore cheeks from laughter Warmth that fades, but only long after And the memory remains Until the next time Like a half moon smile We come around again Fade into the blue sky when the sunlight is brightest and times are busy But when […]
And I was going to say more Explain it, unravel it and explore But then I realised that to do so was just following a thought, which would lead to more Thoughts A proliferation of thoughts And I didn’t want to do that Just for this moment I wanted to be empty of me And […]
We create busy We create it by following the thoughts in our heads. Like charismatic leaders they call to us and blindly, we run after them. Some are exciting, dramatic or inspiring. They tell us of things we want. Others are sad, anxious, fretful – they tell us if things we don’t want. There are […]
Life sits like an unopened present An invisible box that I daily circumnavigate Never opening Never revealing I give it a little shake sometimes Wonder what’s inside Yet like the celebratory treat a loved one has hidden, kept in store for me I’m never quite sure what to make of it – or some days […]
I’ve arrived home to star grass season. I call it star grass, but it’s actual name is Hairy Panic Grass, possibly due to the fact that the sight of this stuff burying everything induces a feeling that is indeed akin to hairy panic. Piles of feather light seed heads piled up against any barrier, fences, […]
Rain closes the curtain on the horizon Soft dove grey meets gunmetal glimmer Tepid taps on already wet shoulders Saturated hair Fresh water mingles with salt Another wave breaks, and I sink into shifting sand far beneath the surface Lost temporarily in the noisy crashing silence Rising I breathe moisture Floating, tumbling foam drifts through […]
This morning it is raining again The sea is whipped into frenzied foaming white capped horses that beat at the shore and trample everything in their path To enter the ocean is like walking into a stampede, and who would do that? Not me, I wander along the high ground looking out Relishing the soft […]
We all wish we could nail down an outcome the way that we most prefer it would turn out. I don’t like surprises. I’m a planner by nature but life doesn’t care how uncomfortable a lack of predictability makes me. I wondered in yesterdays post, if perhaps this was what 2022 was teaching us. Don’t […]
High balcony leaping into spaceA man stands upon it with a faraway look upon his faceI walk belowContemplating the wavesDogs pass me, happy in the momentYetPulling on leads, eager to jump ahead to the next five minutes, the turn in the path, what is coming around the bend I have no leadNo wish to pullI […]
