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 […]
This morning I was out walking when I saw a feather moving strangely along the path An ant was carrying the feather aloft and making astonishingly fast progress In comparison to the tiny ant, the feather looked large and unwieldy, difficult to carry Yet it was not, the ant was perfectly capable of carrying the […]
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 […]
Our path is buried beneath layers of brambles, old rubbish And the wind blown detritus of years spent learning what was not for us Not of us Every day I sweep anew Asking Is this mine? And the way appears Shining clearly But it’s only ten feet wide And ten feet deep So I have […]
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 […]
I have a spaceship inside of me A time machine too As you create a thousand waves of stress out there I step inside Close the hatch And transcend *I began meditating for the same reasons everyone does – to destress, calm down, health benefits, becoming more mindful. But there is something else, somewhere else, […]
Spinning my wheels in space trying to do everything at once Thoughts race Make them stop Part of me just wants to stare and think and marinate *It’s the day after. We had a massive workshop yesterday. A masterclass in writing. It felt like that, perhaps due to our excellent presenter Vicki Bennet. Vicki has […]
