The raindrop strikes the glass and begins to slide down quite quickly it slides down down until it runs out of momentum and pauses stuck it does not go further drying becoming a stain a memory of rain I feel that way too sometimes *It is difficult to enter a day fresh and new. Everything […]
It was the sheer intensity of its disconcerting stare even more so than the light, which was significant I could feel its attention As persistent as a mosquito in a warm room on sundown it bit me – not on the leg, or the arm but directly within my heart waking me from deepest sleep […]
“Your energy is sacred” The words hit me from a sign in a shop that I had been wandering around in on holidays. It was a beautiful shop. The kind full of heavy linen, textures, candles, delicious aromas, chunky chrystals, natural fibres. Everything was in muted tones of cream, brown, auburn, black, white, beige. Tassles. […]
They sit heavily Sharp bones protruding Digging into my shoulders where they alight and come to rest One after the other, weighing me down The things I shouldn’t have said Shouldn’t have done Shouldn’ts are heavy and sharp for sure But there are things that trouble me even more Keeping me awake, eyes to the […]
Days fly by What a funny thing to say I peg washing Laundry flapping wildly in this January wind Correct myself again It’s February already So it is a February wind that beats the clothes about so fiercely How do days fly by? We don’t notice them passing See their trails in the sky Instead […]
Many people have taken up the habit of having a word for the year. They use it sort of like a new year’s intention. I prefer to look back over the previous 12 months and come up with a word that encapsulates the year that has been. What I have learned perhaps. It’s a pretty […]
One word begets two Two words beget a cluster And before we know it a concept is formed It all happens in our head With nothing being said Filters and blinkers Tunnel vision blindness We call it preference But it’s probably the bias of a thousand small decisions We aren’t even aware of making *I […]
Who were you two hundred years ago? Who will you be two hundred years from now? I eat my apple quietly enjoying the colours of the sky, the deepening evening silence I toss the core to the ants that circle beneath the tree After all they need to eat too They circle it greedily, and […]
All that there is Letting it be Not forcing anything Difficult for a control freak like me I was thinking too much Writing in my head; it had become a wastepaper basket that crinkled with noise every time I turned it Then I came across this video And emptiness settled in It’s peaceful when we […]
There is a boy in blazer out with his grandmother, sister and mum He looks glum I wonder if he is being bullied at boarding school They sit across from us in the same dining room My mind weaves a story that is all to soon leaving me sad Then I realise that I’m doing […]
