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 […]
And the words come to greet me Yet I cannot write them down I am scared of what they reveal Even as I refuse They wait Stagnating at the front of my mind The back of my throat The tip of tongue They block everything Until no further words come Arising From wherever words spring […]
I’ve been at least a couple of people at any one time Parallel souls Different vibes Divided Sometimes fighting Within myself I was the drinker who loved to party Next morning sad and smarting Overplaying conversations Worrying about who I offended Finding out It was mostly just myself I’m an adventurer Who wanders way out […]
Always there is the word It waits Nothing by itself It is neither this nor that Lying flat Devoid of any thing Lacking meaning The void stretches away as far as the eye can see The mind cannot name Anything Without word In the deep dark night When images flicker like lightening storms across the […]
