Stack the firewood Kindling Paper Woosh Combustion is a warm red glow In a dark space With uneven outlines Each morning Igniting my heart Inducing the sweat Cedar lined womb Returning to the primordial realm Softening Beginning again And the words drift away behind me When I close the door And take my seat Becoming […]
A bird sings a song But it has a voice I think That’s a magpie calling But the bird Sings its words According to choice As do I Calling in my voice Of the sky and the sea In human dialect Familiar Strange And somewhere beneath Is me Poetry Cadence Rhythm And how we are […]
I run across feathersand attribute meaningWhisper“Hello MumIt’s okayI’m still living”Circling pelicansLow to the groundFormation is oddLike my compassLatelyNorthIsSouthWorld upside downYet stillI feel the stringsFrom my heartConnect to something greater than mePulling me forwardFearlesslyAnd the pragmatist would sayI’m dreamingLost in wonderlandGrow upThere’s bad out thereYou should have seen it comingAnd I would sayI can’t explain the […]
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 […]
The cloud was like a dragon It terrified me I flipped it into a flower And now I am free Thoughts come and go We don’t have to construe We can let them be clouds And allow them to move Freely
Not everyone gets to walk the inner tracks. The ones lined with wild things and deep knowing. Some come heavy-footed, uninvited but familiar, saying they love you while quietly building fences around your light. Let them go. Even if their words are soft. Even if their history is tangled with yours. This ground is sacred. […]
And isn’t adoring the Brolga As it flies In the painted porcelain sky Just another form of praying
The search for peace Is a long hard road Chasms of exhaustion Mountains That touch the sky Walk Pffft, rather trudge, their ranges If you dare Striving to ascertain the intangible high Of peace Certainty But up a mountainside in my mind one day There was a window in the rock I peered through And […]
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 […]
There is an energy to a weighted word I should remember this Instead they came out of my mouth like water from a tap No drip All gush flurry and noise Things that made no sense Yet they landed light and cheery Floated away to the tree Fell like a leaf They carried no meaning […]
