Stone in my pocket

Stone in my pocket Teach me to carry Tumbled fingertips Worn smooth On rough edges Stone in my pocket Teach me to be still To gather sunshine Disperse darkness Stone in my pocket The silence is calm Slide through the water Straight to the bottom Landing quiet A little dust kicked up And then eternity […]

Gentle Landings

Learn from the leaf And not the tree Fall if you must But softly Be gentle with yourself Life isn’t easy The breeze tries to carry The wind shatters Tree crashes But the leaf Being light Knows descending gently matters The last week was like surmounting a personal Everest. Hard exhausting climb, exultant high of […]

Smoulder

Listening to the fire place metal click Tick tick Only coals left now It’s all burnt down Becoming gentle grey ash That will be cold by morning Sitting with my back to the couch On the cool timber floor Warm air rising all around There is so much comfort to be found Present in the […]