The voice in our heads – repost

AsideApril 26, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper1 Comment

Happy Sunday another scheduled post with one of the earlier poetry movies that I did. https://athousandbitsofpaper.com/2019/11/21/the-voice-in-our-head/ Back tomorrow. Stay well and enjoy your Saturday or Sunday whichever it is in your part of the world.

Moving up a level in the game

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper11 Comments

Life is long

If we are lucky.

Days blur

Weeks passing like high speed trains

The refrain of which

Echo in habits and cycles and a great deal of internal conversation

The human mind regurgitates ideas like a cow chewing cud

The same song, words, stuff goes around and around

Yet out of all this oblivion

Arise Pivotel moments

You might experience half a dozen small eruptions when you think

“I have got to change”

“I must“

But change doesn’t happen

Or it does

But is not lasting

Then there are moments

Soft as a cats paw sneaking

Silent as a flower head

Unfolding

Blooming

Pivotel moments

When you walk through an open door

And never go back

To the way you were before

Like wind to the sails in the midst of doldrums

Search the horizon for those moments

When they arrive

Jump on

Enjoy the rise

Your next level has arrived

*and after seemingly an interminably long time striving – when the moment arrives, it is as easy, effortless and surprising as a natural unfurling of intention.

Thoughts on art and style

AsideApril 8, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper8 Comments

What comes out Cannot be manipulated When it comes to art What comes out Is personal It’s your signature Genetic code viewed from the outside And even if you want to make it look like something or someone else’s It won’t work Without a great deal of trouble And why go to all that trouble? […]

Highlight Highs don’t last as the days slip by

AsideApril 7, 2020April 7, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper18 Comments

I was consuming unwisely Trying To eat a life that I couldn’t have But I wanted so bad I didn’t realise in my search for a highlight high True meaning doesn’t come in the form of highlights Only epiphanies And it can’t be eaten like that hot cross bun A piece of chocolate Or an […]

Shut the window

AsideMarch 28, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper8 Comments

Time It runs through my fingers Flies through the window Leaving me restless Where would I have been had I shut the opening Blocked the call of endless potential And simply let some things stick *I have an endless capacity for change. Picking up one thing, I love it and learn everything about it. Sometimes […]

Last week

AsideMarch 19, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper11 Comments

Last week, my head was different Last week, some things mattered more than others And the things that mattered then Have been reduced to nothing this week I see now This week, the things that matter Will not be the same as the next Nor the one after Or the one after that And whilst […]

Negative space – what you choose always leaves something unchosen

AsideMarch 10, 2020March 9, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper11 Comments

Swirling paint Tapestry woven There are things which are said More left unspoken In the spaces between What was done And said Are the things we don’t have Those we never expect Choosing this Sometimes means leaving another The price of what’s done Is unspent Untried Untested Lifetimes are made Of unfinished canvases And the […]

The unravelling

AsideMarch 2, 2020March 1, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper13 Comments

The shell is not the nut The bite you eat Is not the wrapping Don’t confuse the unravelling with the gift The teaching is not in the test The score But in the lesson You have to wait Read more into everything Before reaching for the next level Of anything you want to achieve And […]

Jumping through puddles and changing perspectives

AsideFebruary 13, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper4 Comments

Assumptions and conclusions A child jumping into puddles The illusions That we dream up Scattering like muddy water The movement toward truth All that is needed to alter The reflection Seen in the surface Right before we Jump!

The spiral staircase we walk upon

AsideFebruary 9, 2020February 8, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper14 Comments

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 […]

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