Looking out the window Of a spaceship in flight An astronaut Could be forgiven For thinking this planet solid A simple spinning Green Blue Ball Zoom in closer And closer It isn’t a ball At all Closer in still Humans looming larger An eyeball Two Put them under a microscope Watch those globes disappear again […]
Where are we building? And what? Virtual storehouse 300 posts Photos Internet ghosts That live on long after the original copy is gone Are there any originals? I don’t know anymore Perhaps we are all so interconnected Lives intersected Only by time zones Memories stored on the web Are we not avatars Standing next to […]
Daily I walk along a road with A row of ordinary crosses Joined by cable If one falls Power is disabled These poles Fonts of power Connecting Millions of homes, People. If one falls Loss Of Power What man erects Can always be tumbled *I can’t help but think of the church at Easter time. […]
What you put up high Tucked away safely Used sparingly Treated differently Is not loved No matter how highly you offer it esteem and glow on about it To be loved is to be hugged Affectionately shoved Used daily and well Not taken too seriously The chipped favourite mug The little China jug Plain Ordinary […]
Flying to the light Flutter and surround Unavoidable Drawn Always Evening and dusk Butterflies wanderlust throughout the day Rockstars Everyone loves their gay colours The extravert Visiting each bush and flower Same lifecycle Same miracle Different brothers The Moth favours the dark All the better to see the light Even as it burns Wings singed […]
How do you write so much? How do you write so little? There are a billion ways to string a sentence together To approach a word And ask for it’s hand In yours As you dance With a pen So when you worry If I write too much Won’t I run out? I have to […]
Chameleon What colour are you? When there is no tree branch to melt into Camouflage heart Grey Red Purple Blue But who are you? I see you there See your edges As you move from branch to flower Your power to hide is incredible But it’s time to stop shrinking now Come out from beneath […]
I gave my last $50 It was the only note I had in my wallet To a man with his head down A cap And hair That looked just like my sons I walked past him Hit the button to walk But something was reeling me backwards It was that thought That cap – like […]
Life is circular We never pull ahead Or if we do It is simply to circle back instead At least that is what it feels like sometimes The thing is If I were to picture this pattern It is not the same circle It is several overlapping Or rather A spiral We begin at a […]
This morning I had something occur which is frustrating – because I couldn’t do much about it. A lady is in hospital in pain and is all crumpled inside Her chance of having children is now gone She was asking for some love, some conversation from the depths of her blog Yet her comments weren’t […]
