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. […]
Tiny pebble skips easily across a pond It’s light Quick Exuberant A boulder drops heavy Creates a huge splash Falls to the bottom Water rushing to cover It is weighted Passive Lies inert Blocks the throat Momentarily No matter their size The pebble and the boulder still end up at the bottom of the river […]
I take ten silver spoons and polish them carefully Each is different Some are quirky I place them on the bench so I can see how many I have left daily according to the theory. (Although I make my own theories on how I use spoons) I use one for art Which delivers me two […]
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 […]
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 […]
Simple is as simple does Such a simple thought and yet we love to convolute Expanding situations into troublesome affairs And wondering why no one understands that we just want simple Causing chaos and stirring up drama the interior turmoil spills over and burns someone who goes on to think we are an overly dramatic […]
If the year that was Is now over Let me leave it there I don’t want to take this lesson again Squeezed Through another pattern of stars The constellation of a life Burnt energy falling to earth Muffled into conformity Repeating steps built like code Into DNA Puppet on strings I follow the trail Higher […]
The fluttering wind of a flock of birds wings Taking to the sky Scared from the grass They rise Feathers stroking, seeking Height In the flurry Forgotten A bird rests on the ground She will not rise Her time has flown Soft eyes Closing It seems a gentle thing Death Sad But really Isn’t it […]
Life is light and shade High and low Good and bad Our energy is evenly distributed Between two currents We batteries Require negative And positive experience To run us A 50% elixir Seems to be the mixer That works Sweet. Although I knew this It wasn’t until recently I realized that I could manipulate the […]
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.
