Rain drops run rivulets Down the iron Along bark They run and they run until they simply run out Soak in and stop Lying in bed I listen to them scatter and thrum Wondering How it would feel To be a raindrop running Joining and splitting, becoming greater, smaller Turning into a puddle, forming a […]
Driving into the setting sun The glare of dusty gold speckles on the windscreen They glisten like jewels, but are just dead bugs Combined with the silver bright halo of haze I am blindfolded For minutes at a time I can’t see the edges of the road The middle is a bright white blurr I […]
I awoke worried By a fiend of my brain Figment of imagination It cast no shadow as I turned on the light Nor ever will These things which make us fret Toss and turn Tumbling heartbeats in our sleep Are not real To reach out a hand is to smite a ghost The only head […]
I walk along a track It sheds gold dust in the wind Coating my jacket Powdering my pants A weed by any other name Turnip, a common pest Yet it makes my insides smile to look at it Winding through fields where the flowers have begun to bloom Spring is approaching And I am watching […]
Saturday evening I’ve done nothing I planned But the day doesn’t care And the sun sets regardless *My to do list became taken over by others today. The dog who needed to be taken to the vet, and then the holdup as the vet was attending to a dog with snake bite. I was slightly […]
Disassociation We run away from ourselves, the situation, the thinking of things that provoke us The more resilient and strong we seem The further away from the true problems we have drifted I had no idea this was where I existed Away from myself had become home and I hung pictures on the wall Lived […]
Tuesday was a lovely autumn morning, I decided to use my bike to go to site (an hour away in another town) rather than the car. I had some meals to deliver for the men, but they weren’t heavy and would fit into my panniers. I haven’t been on the bike on the highway for, […]
The truth is not the thing we think it is It moves, changes, morphs, transcends It is fluent, and it depends On only the deepest held feeling As to how it emerges and when In an argument it may stay hidden and never come about Our task therefore is to tickle it out Out of […]
If I were to write a poem about this dayIt would not be autobiographicalI was not hereMy mind elsewhereFloating free from all that bothered meI was the hawk that hoveredA wildflower pluckedThe tree which I leaned against as I ate my lunchI tipped my head backStared at the skyAnd I dreamt in coloursThat sparked rainbows […]
Ever had the sensation where your mind won’t shut up, but you need to go to sleep, but it won’t shut up, and you toss and turn, and the hours tick away and the more you yearn for sleep, the more things your mind keeps coming up with, to keep you awake. Last night, as […]
