Imagine if we could only recognise a person by the clothes that they most recently wore Tomorrow a green shirt confuses a different hairstyle obscuring the countenance we once thought we knew appearance to be the only indicator of another’s identity how funny how stupid how small to judge another on anything at all other […]
We are sandcastles Daily we build by night we are gone released into the potential of whatever tomorrows tidings bring. Some run screaming from that tide Clinging preciously to the lines that define Who they are What they think Others collapse gratefully knowing we are not the walls and turrets that a child builds with […]
Worry is a walk through the dry husks of overblown spring flowers Gathering burrs Gathering burrs I look down My socks are full Bristling with prickles that once were pretty Now they cling Biting my ankles And it is easy to think the burrs are the problem And not the surface, the sock the thinking […]
And it’s raining out of nowhere Like the sky has changed moods And the mist in the paddocks Is blocking the view of the cold blue hills in the distance The iron on the roof is prickling in response But I’m not really listening though my nerves twitch along with the musical notes that pour […]
Beware the bounce and happy Beware sharing that aspect of personality as it arises Only a few appreciate it And it drains energy Keep it inside Bubble and break like a wave on the shore of a deserted beach Nobody sees Yet the ocean continues In all it’s glory *I take many breaks from social […]
I cannot be what you want me to be I can only be what I am Pursed lips Rolled eyes Heavy sighs These all come from your own insides Not mine Expectation is the killer of happiness People pleasing Just drains us We go along perfectly fine Until the wind changes *It’s tricky – this […]
I have a hatstand full of hats And yet usually I’m wearing a bright orange freebie Someone gave to me From OCG As a poet I love a metaphor So this has me thinking Perhaps the hat that suits me most Is the one that chooses me And maybe I should stop overthinking this thing […]
Emptiness can feel like hollow and hollow can feel like space and space can feel like a luxury unless it is crying for company which mine rarely is The expanse can open up on a perfectly comfortable afternoon chasm yawning wide as the book closes the movie ends And for those first few minutes the […]
And it occurred to me That these are the days Each 24 hours long (As decided by some surmising doing being some thousand years ago) These are the days Through which we rush headlong Like children hounded by bells School is out It is in Lessons in session Heads down we forge ahead Fall behind […]
Reflection is useless when looking in a stone the surface unyielding to any sort of enquiry And yet, we would be more intelligent to ask the stone the pebble who am I? then to listen to the rabble that surrounds us in the midst of daily life The routine Same people same thoughts same places […]
