Iwho have often hid in the midst of noiseLaughterTurning aside the more penetrating gazeWith a wall of clever wordsIWho thought the cocoon only produced butterfliesTurns outPhoenix and dragonsRise on wings of silencefrom jagged tooth wombs And the birth means annihilation To the bearer She died I was born And now I wear the scars that […]
Horizon turning Apricot to blue I want to grasp This moment Before the sun While the moon is still bright Already the stars Have left the sky And the tall gum tree behind Is becoming more defined Leaf by leaf We cannot hold time For it is inexorably marching toward forever And the only way […]
Firelight illuminates Shadows add depth We are the sum of both the seen And unseen Even to ourselves Self is blinded perhaps Most of all. What rises to the surface when heat is applied Reveals things more precious Than spent time Sitting in the warmth But without the heat I guess it’s a little obscure […]
Beware your heroes You may become them And the heroes I like Never lived an easy life Watch your admiration Where it drifts Who it casts Because the people I admire Never lived an easy life Watch your discipline and discernment Strive to make them right Because the things that I discarded Did not make […]
We hold ourselves to impossible standards sometimes
Struck by lightening in the middle of a field Drowned in a dam Hit by a car Tree falls Leaving a scar Where a human has been We cling precariously To fate Avoiding at all costs Our use by date And all the while Death smiles gently Shakes its head And whispers You really could […]
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 […]
Human I feel you Dancing along beside me Because I am also human With eyes that see The invisible web that weaves around us all and through Palpable Resonating Encountering trouble in one Turning to another Winged fingers unknotting The invisible ties that bind Unravelling the goodness which defines Nearly all Humans Our genuine desire […]
I’m so enjoying chatting to everyday people about their hands for my project These 2 Hands. Up on substack today, is Sarah. I found Sarah inspirational in that she knew exactly why she was doing what she was doing and what her end vision was. It wasn’t a grand vision, it was purposeful. And that […]
It rises teaching me how to rise too. To leave everything on the ground Evaporate towards the clouds Becoming more transparent All around Fog to mist vapour to air Join with the clouds Come back down again As gentle rain That feeds the ground Grows the grass Nitrogen Descended Transformed Excreted Rises Transforms Deleted Never. […]
