Look for yourself in yesterdays footprints The wind has erased your passing Look for yourself in the thoughts that you had a year ago You are not there you barely remember what you had for breakfast last Tuesday We wake, we think thoughts and we journey over the day The hills, the valleys Emotional highs […]
Hot air released to the clouds Sighs flying Breathe in Breathe out Disappear from view Air balloons Transient moons Sun comes up Sun goes down Memories in between Inflated by emotions Land on my mind Misplaced by others Photos from my phone capture and recall Moments as intangible as all those Hot air balloons A […]
In the gap between this task and another and this thought and the next one and the concern I have for this and that other thing which might occur and all of this mental weight and the physical burden the sheer enormity of stuff to do Is there any space for love? And is loving […]
If I were to ask the sky Why? It wouldn’t tell me And if I were to ask a human They would tell me from their experience Not mine If I were to ask my dog She would speak with her eyes But I cannot fathom what that means Questioning of the mind can be […]
Conversation is a harmony to pay close attention to fault lines like dead notes in the middle of a tune the silence arises where velvet meets wood and there is no music As the key turns mute and no amount of playing can cover the mistake as the score returns again and again to that […]
Worry is a kind of prayer Or so I’ve come to realise I thought it was a lack of faith And perhaps it is, if it’s not directed anywhere My worry has always been directed to God And I believe it has always found its mark Because there is very little that I have worried […]
When my younger son was in grade three or four he told me about a project he needed to do for school. Me, being a crafter, was instantly inspired and together we bought cardboard and new coloured markers and set about printing out pictures and googling and finding information together. It was so much fun, […]
To know how to live Don’t ask humans Ask the stars I wish I knew them Many are dead and already gone And yet their light continues on Perhaps in that fact Is the kernel of truth Live so what you leave burns forward too Our bodies are fragile and have to die But who […]
I wish I had never developed this thing Now it’s grown so big It is difficult to get rid of I wish when it first entered my heart At the very start I had the wisdom back then to drop it I’ve been feeding it now For twenty-five years It’s heavy It’s big And it […]
There is a lot in me Far too much to contain at times It can come out in “wrong” ways if I let it So when I feel too much And can no longer expand without busting I take myself off And breathe into vast spaces that can hold me And then I can go […]
