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.
Fear Paralysing Heat rushing Heart sinking Shame Shame Shame The fear of failing being seen as lame lame lame I’ve had all these fears All these moments Again and Again and again And I’m still alive There is a second sometimes when I post something Where I literally have to walk through a brick wall […]
Poetry – spoken word and mini movie here: Words: How good do you look naked? Metaphorically of course Just stepped out of the shower And someone hits you With Negativity Prejudice Racism Cynicism Judgement … Do you respond calmly Rationally Peacefully Diplomatically Or do you rage in your response? Enough so that you feel dirty […]
It’s a funny thing poetry Emotion opens the page Feelings push the pen Stroke the keyboard Arrange words The heart overseeing everything like a conductor who denotes You speak Now you And you And you And the melody flows forth From within To without Where it becomes this poem Or rather prose (of course) Which […]
Who is your bitch? And it doesn’t have to be female Who is the person you know That makes everyone around them tip toe Lest a nasty torrent be unleashed You can feel the tension That forgets to breathe When they around It rises behind them Like the dust Of a thousand heart shattering Too […]
Have you ever seen a tree uncertain? Anxious? Worried about dropping their leaves? Their seeds? Have you ever sat under a huge tree It’s bark at your back Imagined the depth of its roots Burrowing down in the earth Keeping it stable They sway in the wind Lose a branch here and there But the […]
I packed everything up in a pile
To try and escape my mind for awhile
Then realised
I had to take it with me
I didn’t realise I Was wearing My Filter As some kind of invisible accessory I have taken it off now Please Tell me your story again… *there is a difference between hearing and listening And it becomes instantly apparent When we err Or it did to me this morning – hence the second post while […]
This morning I had something occur which is frustrating – because I couldn’t do much about it. A lady is in hospital in pain and is all crumpled inside Her chance of having children is now gone She was asking for some love, some conversation from the depths of her blog Yet her comments weren’t […]
Bougainvillea tangles Scratching Yet the blood produced is not as bright as the exuberant blooms That sway overhead in the breeze Fuchsia plumes Loaded with the hot scent of summer Dance and sway on the breeze Lifting hairs to nape Bringing cool relief to pin points of sweat Pearls dripping Sliding Nobbling spine Ache and […]
