It was the sheer intensity of its disconcerting stare even more so than the light, which was significant I could feel its attention As persistent as a mosquito in a warm room on sundown it bit me – not on the leg, or the arm but directly within my heart waking me from deepest sleep […]
A tree sitting in the garden Locked into place Held by roots, it cannot escape And yet it changes Season cycles turn green to brown Faded leaves fall and flutter to the ground Snakes that expand and lose their skin Growing a new one they begin again A cliff face may take a thousand years […]
When jealousy alights on your shoulder And envy digs it’s claws in your chest Listen Because they are showing you your next step All too often these emotions are shown with a negative light Because they feel negative and can be toxic if not addressed maturely But if you slide the switch to the other […]
There comes a point In every trip When you look back And you can’t see home anymore And the lovely thing about travel Taking trips Is you always come home But with journeys of personal growth You go somewhere else. If you’re lucky You lose sight of everything you ever thought you knew Your thoughts […]
The moon has woken me Through the double doors it shines Relentless I could draw the curtain Go back to sleep But that seems a waste of illumination We cannot hide from light Neither the moons Nor our own Nor other people’s I used to be all the time Wanting to escape to a mountain […]
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 […]
Why have I come back? Well let’s not put the cart before the horse Why did I shut down the blog in the first place? Which took me awhile to fully understand myself Short answer? Because I hate failing And I was failing – or felt I was I lacked the courage and intestinal fortitude […]
I’m back. I’ve been skirting around the edges of WordPress for awhile – it’s so difficult to pick up the reins again once a blog has died beneath you and to get back into writing. And blogs do literally (no pun intended but…) die. The funeral is past – readers drift away, things change. One […]
When I write Every day I am honing a craft And I am growing a raft for my thoughts which carry them from me to you And I am beginning to understand the power the energy of words so they have become WORDS not words to me anymore And my brain is organising this process […]
“Look at all these mistakes”he sighed from high above her on the ladder. “They’re just nails – they hold it all together” She muttered searching about for a hammer. “Well it’s very messy” He huffed. She missed the nail, hit her thumb. And the pain taught her a lessons. Same as it always did.
