Approach Smile Breathe This is your life It is everything and anything you desire Terrifying And freeing At the same time You are solely responsible For who you are And who you become So Become glorious Become wonderful Become Whatever you want *Welcome to 2020 – be whatever you want. These words bubble up from […]
I’m taking a time out Putting down the screens Chilling and breathing And enjoying just being Alive on this amazing earth I’ll be back in 2020 ❤️❤️❤️
Eagle lifting Thoughts sifting Foot connecting One after the other Mind drifting Hearing sentences Running through my head What he said She said Barbs that stick like burrs As consciousness whirls Memories dredging What does this mean? What did that? Nothing particularly matters Once you understand It’s all just words Habits People’s verbal vomits Things […]
Had a conversation with a man about dying He was terrified But I wasn’t frightened He asked me why And I smiled Said “I guess as writers we live in our heads One foot in this world And one in the next We walk through lifetimes And a thousand heads How can I be scared […]
The moment before you get what you crave Desire That which you have been aspiring Perspiring Towards Chiselling away Right before it emerges Out of the clay The rock The stone That step just before you arrive home At the epitome At the point Is the best non point in your life (Until another one […]
I read Tim McGraws book “Grit and Grace” in the last few days. It has re-kickstarted my health and exercise resolutions. Those sort of resolutions have always been six months on two months off for me – I think I have it sorted this time though with that books help. Another thing. Yesterday I was […]
It takes me by the mind Walking in kingdoms that are not mine Wanting things That are not useful As I pine for all And crave everything My empty hands grasping Picking at the stitches That sew everything together Neatly Moth chewed holes in the fabric Of the pattern Leaving trails behind me as I […]
A man buys an old house Every year the storms blow in And he hammers Repairs Underpins Every year more parts of the house are destroyed It is untenable Yet he fights on Determined not to be Defeated Until one day After a particularly bad storm is repeated The man throws his arms in the […]
There are people who have hurt Prodded Provoked me to the point of anguish I didn’t realise they were lifting Me And by the time I looked back It could only be with compassion Because there they were Still small growing smaller Still stuck In their fears Human beings Who had taught me to fly […]
Be here with the cup In the soapy water Be here with the toaster As it cooks Smelling the aroma of crusty bread Browning Be here with the sights and sounds of nothing more important arising Than dust motes drifting across the room As writers we are trained to panic It is ingrained this thought […]
