Why wouldn’t I create? We have this ability to make ourselves incredibly happy for hours With something that comes completely from within No outside person or thing required I pick up a slim black tipped pen Or a camera Or a notebook And write, click, paint, Walk out into nature Or drink deeply from my […]
The concentration that is When I focus to submit Is utter freedom. To create from the two Is to be split into a thousand different opinions Judgement rises from self First And turns like Ouroboros To consume my own art Until there is nothing left But a hungry mouth That is never fed For art […]
If “the obstacle is the way” But the way is art Then art is the way And the way becomes art As do we Creative thinking overcomes and who we become in being creative, is an artful way of living. If the obstacle is the way Then a sculptor writer poet painter musician Says The […]
Out of my head and the thoughts that ensnare Away from the “net” Away from the “gram” Fall into place where the leaves shiver and the soles of the feet take in the warmth of the uneven earth beneath Textures that please the fingertips Drink in the energy that floats gold dust in the air […]
Jellyfish swim at the whim of the ocean tides They arrive on the beach Leaving people streaming out of the water Cursing jellyfish Who (you’ll recall) arrive at the whim of the ocean And die parched deaths High and dry Away from the tide That delivered them. Thoughts arise unbidden Create emotions that often need […]
It is difficult to recall that the earth is a ball Floating around in space When horizons are flat The sky looks solid And we are stuck in the human race It’s difficult to know that the tree that grows Sprang forth from a random seed It’s puzzling we forget we are surrounded by magic […]
How quickly the day is consumed Minutia marching goose step command I steal back the time Just half an hour To watch the glimmer of sunlight on steel It fascinates It is real I imagine the journey it has been on to arrive here dropped under a tree half buried in dirt If it has […]
You cannot lose Skin Bone Teeth In such vast quantities that you are reduced To nothing You are the art That is breathed into the world In continuum Whilever there is lung and heart and brain The spirit that you possess Will be creating *I’ve taken up an exciting position with a new employer. This […]
Another two minute read on Substack. This is one of the hardest stories I have had to compile to date, because Maggie isn’t a character that should be contained to a two minute read. But the rules are there for a reason, so I’m trying to stick to them. Maggie is a person who could […]
The wind gusts strongly Kicks up leaves, eddies emotion Shut the door Seal the gaps Become still Writing is a storm It stirs chattering words Thoughts, mentally charged Rise to the surface And swirl To reinstate calm I choose to Silence the words Contain the thoughts that swirl Command the wind to calm Emotions fall […]
