There’s a fog this morning Warm air bumping into cold The greater atmospherics Out of my control I simply woke into this day Running along Becoming gently soaked The next metre or so Barely discernible In ayurvedic medicine there is a correlation Between the conditions within And the conditions without I believe this And wonder […]
The eaten out field Toxic and poisoned Full of weeds The situation looks hopeless But to one who knows That weeds grow To heal the earth Hope… Is already alive And working *One of the teachings of permaculture – weeds grow where the soil needs healing. Times like these .. Perhaps the weeds of 2020 […]
Graffiti. Destruction Defacement ….or art? Where does one begin And the other takeover In the mind In the emotions In the thoughts of the one that holds the spraycan aloft In skill In talent Creative expression Or The mindless obsession with saying I Was Here Or Does the answer lie In the beholders eye That […]
There is a ghostly craft That floats Beyond the horizon Carrying the cargo Of all the choices I did not Could not Make The older we grow The more we unload Realising There is only one path we can walk this life And only so much we can carry Certain people, certain baggage So We […]
The pattern of a birds wing Against the sky Freedom Flight Light And in the case of the pigeon Home *pigeons have been known to fly thousands of kilometres from a strange place, home. Their navigation system is so strong They can do it blind How they do this is a mystery The heart is […]
Mother Nature draws a deep breath Just before the sun peaks over the horizon The cold air rushes in Chasing the warmth away And for those minutes, as she takes her breath The quality of sound changes The birds are silent And then A shaft of light Strikes If I close my sun warmed lids […]
Lighting candles at dusk The crickets remind me Their chirping begins around that time too The light is soft outside Low in the sky I chop kindling Set a stack aside To take to the fire Offerings to the chimney Please start easily It usually does I have a system Two logs either side Paper […]
Horses Life forces Of their very own Intelligent Capable And if you win their respect Honour it As the great treasure it is *My father was a great horseman – he broke them in, used them for mustering, played polo from their backs and had a great respect for his four legged companions. My Grandfather’s […]
Sunflowers They follow the sun And when night comes Or they are displaced They bow their heads And remember the feeling of warmth On their face I’m changing up my Instagram and adding more of my own photography when time allows. Find me here https://www.instagram.com/kate_duff_poetry/
Looking out the window Of a spaceship in flight An astronaut Could be forgiven For thinking this planet solid A simple spinning Green Blue Ball Zoom in closer And closer It isn’t a ball At all Closer in still Humans looming larger An eyeball Two Put them under a microscope Watch those globes disappear again […]
