Sitting in the seat of the drunk the maudlin the pitiful fool the jester the heartbreaker the family jewel the business man juggling his takeaway coffee the grandmother enroute to see her family The busy the tired the fraught the lonely the peaceful the calm the distracted the lonely I wonder who sat down here […]
Inside everybody is a monster and the monster whispers that it is everybody but actually it’s a nobody nothing of substance except a blackened strip of velcro to which every negative word and memory clings like lint Everybody isn’t out there It’s in here And when it stands up it becomes nothing but a curtain […]
Look for yourself in yesterdays footprints The wind has erased your passing Look for yourself in the thoughts that you had a year ago You are not there you barely remember what you had for breakfast last Tuesday We wake, we think thoughts and we journey over the day The hills, the valleys Emotional highs […]
I wish I had never developed this thing Now it’s grown so big It is difficult to get rid of I wish when it first entered my heart At the very start I had the wisdom back then to drop it I’ve been feeding it now For twenty-five years It’s heavy It’s big And it […]
There is a lot in me Far too much to contain at times It can come out in “wrong” ways if I let it So when I feel too much And can no longer expand without busting I take myself off And breathe into vast spaces that can hold me And then I can go […]
A feather spirals from high above I stop and watch it Walk over and pick it up There is no magic in how it flew From a body with wings high above It dropped Gravity sucking it down Down to the ground where I stood But it fell so gracefully That it stopped time for […]
Dreaming of Flowers Candles Incense A cool Autumn breeze Green tea sipped from a pretty cup Piano music tinkling over my shattered nerves Picking them up, one by one, knitting them into a harmony Something to hold me together Each day, a little of this mountain is conquered I take notes for the next day […]
My head is full of pressure serious things which must be done immediately Other parts of my brain run like children out of the house away from the arguing adults They are chasing dopamine Which makes me anxious Add it to the stack that piles precariously on my neck It’s so heavy it might break […]
Adrift in the seaGraceful ballerinasEffortless jetesElegant pirouettesMesmerisingTranslucentBeautyAbandoned on the beachParched and dryingA child pokes with a stickMy tender heart pities For I have a jelly fish tongueWhen writing it dancesDextrousFlexing with easeBut when I speakI am marooned on the beachParched and dryingI poke it with a stickAlas, it freezes Header Photo: a snap I took […]
Something I realised lately Balance looks nothing like we think it does. Balance is not perfection, it’s the opposite of perfection. Balance is seeing ourselves in our entirety All the things we loveAll the things we hateAcknowledging everythingAccepting everythingAnd getting on with making the best of what we’ve been given Balance occurs in nature not […]
