You can lose yourself at 2am Trapped somewhere between Yesterday and ten years ago Worrying ahead Peering into the impenetrable fog Of a life yet to be lived As if thinking your way carefully Is some sort of prevention device For mistaken history Fate does not require compliance It is relentless in its punctuality Turning […]
If tears had words They wouldn’t be needed And if pressure could burst Gently There would be no point Volcanoes lay dormant For Millenia Beneath basalt And turf Lava boils unheeded There is a point to anger It has magnificent power But if it can’t be contained Controlled, Built It adds nothing to the moment […]
When a butterfly emerges No one is watching Except the organism That is transformed Nobody understands it either Not truly We can observe the exterior But we can’t feel the experience Of sludge Becoming membrane Growing wings Or the confusion Occurring within A tiny brain Metamorphosis happens Far from the gaze A caterpillar builds a […]
The fast moving vehicle Problem Issue We are ensnared within the folds of speed and rush Confusion and chaos cling to things that move fast Enveloping us Like a boa constrictor Crushing Only stillness causes the bindings to drop Silence clears the mind A diamond raindrop slides Landing with a plop It stops me Saves […]
Nature doesn’t change because you want her to Nor does she listen If you wish to argue with her current status Nature doesn’t bend to the whimsy of others And I’ve never heard a tree complain Even when it is struck asunder by lightning Nor the ground run away frightened By the intensity of the […]
We see skin And think it solid Surface appearance That we acknowledge as if the coatings Around those edges are finite Representative Of the individual within They are not. For we are spirits blending and dissolving Into God Someone asked me “What religion do you tick on the statistics” I said none Because I only […]
Talk to me of silence How it pools How it rolls How it covers the bowed shoulders With a soothing warm glow Talk to me of silence How it allows the lungs to breathe And the softer sounds of birdsong Come drifting the breeze Talk to me of silence Except then there wouldn’t be any […]
Seen collectively Trees are easy to dismiss as all the same Time spent with them however Tells a different story They are each unique From bark pattern to leaf To colour to lean To growth And that is one species alone So I go where trees grow To untangle my own Feelings Because feelings To […]
Picking up the pieces of my life again Knitting them together with writing Sunday’s post on SubStack
Have you noticed the sky? Birds flying? I watch them The little ones Their wings beat so furiously The big ones soar and glide. Curiously, I wonder, … Deliverance
