Sorrow is a thing of brittle bones Take it in your hands very gently And place it in the winter sun where it shines through a window Breathe its story deeply And write what it tells you Leaving nothing out, no word unattended When you look up Sorrow may have grown feathers Open the window […]
There is a fox about I heard its strange high pitched calling the other night As I sat cheeks rosy in the firelight My feet dug into the cold earth Soil trickling between my bare toes My dogs barked and howled at the stranger come sniffing about But I knew it was no stranger calling […]
And what about the uninvited Unintended That just rock up to the words And choke On this glimpse of a naked soul handed to them As if spied through a window Suddenly caught On the thought That there is much more here than they had ever considered Have I delivered up a piece of my […]
First stars have a lot of pressure Carry a lot of weight It’s why they hang low in the sky So many people pin their pain on them Whispering “Now that you’re gone – I’ll think of you, when I see the first star” And I think of them All those people All that pain […]
The sounds of cars parking Latecomers walking up Some with heels smacking Others a soft shoe shuffle A small child whimpering A dog barking Person coughing Rooster crowing All of these noises impact the sacred one minute Is there any way to gain purity of silence In a body of humans? No But listen to […]
The interior of my being belongs to consciousness And consciousness is a shape shifter Sometimes it resembles a 5 year old And at others, a woman of 33 All of this belongs to me, and yet isn’t entirely mine to control It blends with memory and dreams of the future What has been And what […]
Somehow the hours drifted by Beneath the sound of the pool being filled by trickling water The feel of the mower chewing grass as it arced underneath in circles A mind left to wander and dwell in places longer than usual The warmth of autumn sunshine shining down my back Cobwebs untangled Decks swept And […]
Empty hands A full mind Full hands Empty mind I really must put it down, and yet I type another line of rhyme and tell myself In a minute … *It’s a difficult thing, this phone addiction. Mostly because I’m not actually addicted to my phone, I just use it for everything: It is my […]
All of the words to choose And anger picked up those ones All of the words to choose And defence threw that absolute bomb in return All of the words to choose I wish I had chosen more wisely Now all of the words to use Have fallen silent *Right word, right place, take the […]
I write words that are yours But they will never mark a page I write them in the air With my eyes As I stare At the clouds being lit from within Turning pink And when darkness falls The words disappear Becoming stars I hope you see them Wherever you are
