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 […]
To sleep so deeply beneath a full moon that I awaken at 3am, certain it is 5 I make coffee and sip, before I check the time And sigh This is too early to begin the day and I am suddenly tired Wide awake at 5 Half awake at 3 I don’t why such arbitrary […]
There are days that fail us We strive to do everything to the best of our ability And still After all that energy Nothing goes right Twenty-four hours in a day Seven days in a week Fifty-two weeks in a year Days do not fail They turn into another and another We just haven’t got […]
The silence of being alone Appliances hum and whirr and click Fire crackles happily munching down on sticks of wood Reducing what was once solid to ash And the pages of my book whisper, as if loathe to break the spell A cup of tea steams quietly And I am utterly content Time spent alone […]
Everything that we are exists in the present moment Uncomfortable with our limitations we run Into the bottle The thin white line Of roads or drugs or shopping carts Empty boxes And empty hands Burning Ashes to ashes Dust to dust A life spent outside of ourselves is never enough When a decision is made […]
What relevance is religion in the year of our Lord 2022? Oh my God, what if? What if my God? Two completely different questions, asked from a completely different emotional standpoint One is panicked and frightened , more a rhetorical question then anything The other a gentle query, uttered with steady faith, a peaceful heart, […]
