Old Mother Hubbard she went to the cupboard to give her poor doggy a bone but when she went there the cupboard was bare and so the poor doggy had none… This nursery rhyme sprang to mind when thinking back in time to the many instances when people have wanted something from me and I […]
When you’re quiet And you’ve done the work Your mind is at rest You’re focused And there is someone in the room Just making aimless conversation If you tune in Whilst still remaining quiet It is annoying And you realise So much of what we say and converse about With some people Strangers usually or […]
There are these voices That live in my head I’m not mad We all have them there Listen to them How do they sound? Are they male Or female? Also Are they familiar? Mine are I have my Dad Among others Exasperated In fact most of my inner critics Are male – I hear them […]
She said that she was hanging by a thread Find yourself a tree I said Some dirt Sit awhile Close your eyes And listen for the song of the ants Lifting several times their body weight They come Plying bitten off leaves The seeds of grass and flowers Working together Their communities are powerful They […]
Explanation Is an erosion If it begins in defence An unravelling occurs Building momentum As it rolls Tearing strips from the soul Of any artist If it means to enlighten The words spill one over the other Over the other Not always going anywhere At All To the non verbal thinker And inward dweller Explanation […]
There’s a fog this morning Warm air bumping into cold The greater atmospherics Out of my control I simply woke into this day Running along Becoming gently soaked The next metre or so Barely discernible In ayurvedic medicine there is a correlation Between the conditions within And the conditions without I believe this And wonder […]
Where are we building? And what? Virtual storehouse 300 posts Photos Internet ghosts That live on long after the original copy is gone Are there any originals? I don’t know anymore Perhaps we are all so interconnected Lives intersected Only by time zones Memories stored on the web Are we not avatars Standing next to […]
The sensation of watching through a car window Life rushing past All those people that drive along side Faces in vehicles Passing by I’m moving fast Faces blur Life is a journey Not some ambling detour That goes around and around Sometimes it’s only the people in the same vehicle that are still here We […]
The wind is shaking the chairs on the verandah Iron banging on wood The screens around the outer provide the whistle The gap in the windows the howl The whole orchestra is playing now Falling silent as the wind dips Blows itself out Only to gust in again And I can’t sleep for the sound […]
A word After a word After a word With each adding depth to the meaning Of the one which came before it As few as possible Not necessarily beautiful But true That is how things should be written Not The magnificence of the omnipresent moment adds splendid divulgence to the optical illusion that we are […]
