Explanation Is an erosion If it begins in defence An unravelling occurs Building momentum As it rolls Tearing strips from the soul Of any artist If it means to enlighten The words spill one over the other Over the other Not always going anywhere At All To the non verbal thinker And inward dweller Explanation […]
The sensation of watching through a car window Life rushing past All those people that drive along side Faces in vehicles Passing by I’m moving fast Faces blur Life is a journey Not some ambling detour That goes around and around Sometimes it’s only the people in the same vehicle that are still here We […]
I’m off social media for the week-ends I’m feeling diluted and need the head space So I left this older blog post here if anyone would like to read I seemed to be feeling the similarly back in February https://athousandbitsofpaper.com/2020/02/03/water-divining-inspiration-poetry/ Back Monday, my Monday, which is perhaps your Sunday Thanks for reading
Everything you perceive you project If you perceive yourself to be strong capable amazing and talented this is what you will project however if you perceive yourself to be failing useless unconfident shy bumbling foolish not good enough Guess what? This is exactly what you project Stop worrying about what other people think it doesn’t […]
I didn’t realise I Was wearing My Filter As some kind of invisible accessory I have taken it off now Please Tell me your story again… *there is a difference between hearing and listening And it becomes instantly apparent When we err Or it did to me this morning – hence the second post while […]
Where did you tuck your dream The one you put away, decided against That road you didn’t take Did you lay it in the drawer beside your special soaps Tucked away with precious things Because you can’t abandon hope Or did you lift the bin lid And throw it in the trash Could never abide […]
Words should come with an adaptable filter But they don’t What I write Isn’t what you see Because you are not me And you are filtering my words Through your own experience This is the challenge any writer faces And it can be paralysing Have us gravitating to safe ground This world now more than […]
Shoals of fish turn and dart – one entity Trying to escape the marauding sharks Come to feed on a moment of plenty Flocks of birds fly overhead moving as one They turn Wing tips spread Diving Feasting on Swarms of locusts As they fly through the air In thick clouds Decimating … Pelicans fly […]
To sit in a silent room And hear only silence To lie in bed And hear Only silence To stand in a field In the middle of nowhere And hear only silence It doesn’t happen that way But wouldn’t it be nice To drive along the highway And not hear every thought Echoing Echoing Explaining […]
Where do we live? In our homes Our towns Perhaps another’s heart When we die to our body Do we truly leave this world? Where did we come from? Where do we go? I have looked for concrete evidence Of my presence passing by And the only place I found it Is in the deeds […]
