To hold the hand flat on a searing surface Would be unthinkable Unbearable Psychical pain Physical pain Are equal They both light up the same area of the brain To hold a thought, a memory, of great pain unflinchingly Is as meaningful as taking a knife to our own jugular Yet we do it Constantly […]
All of the words to choose And anger picked up those ones All of the words to choose And defence threw that absolute bomb in return All of the words to choose I wish I had chosen more wisely Now all of the words to use Have fallen silent *Right word, right place, take the […]
“Well I just don’t feel that strongly It’s so messy I don’t understand why you are so passionate“ And the cold fish backs away hastily A look of horror on their face Tears for a sunset Are out of place Depth is so deep And shallow so much safer And their mind has never been […]
The house is quiet, it seems to be deep breathing Or perhaps that is just me Listening to the odd tick of the iron releasing pressure on the roof I glance to my dog and even though his eyes are shut, he feels my attention and bounces his tail Energy moves, a ghostly handprint on […]
So often we are hemmed in by our immediate surroundings and day to day troubles We forget to look up, look out Whether it is a line across the landscape or where the ocean meets the sky The horizon is a peaceful place On which to rest the eyes The heart The mind
We create busy We create it by following the thoughts in our heads. Like charismatic leaders they call to us and blindly, we run after them. Some are exciting, dramatic or inspiring. They tell us of things we want. Others are sad, anxious, fretful – they tell us if things we don’t want. There are […]
I’ve arrived home to star grass season. I call it star grass, but it’s actual name is Hairy Panic Grass, possibly due to the fact that the sight of this stuff burying everything induces a feeling that is indeed akin to hairy panic. Piles of feather light seed heads piled up against any barrier, fences, […]
Rain closes the curtain on the horizon Soft dove grey meets gunmetal glimmer Tepid taps on already wet shoulders Saturated hair Fresh water mingles with salt Another wave breaks, and I sink into shifting sand far beneath the surface Lost temporarily in the noisy crashing silence Rising I breathe moisture Floating, tumbling foam drifts through […]
This morning it is raining again The sea is whipped into frenzied foaming white capped horses that beat at the shore and trample everything in their path To enter the ocean is like walking into a stampede, and who would do that? Not me, I wander along the high ground looking out Relishing the soft […]
We all wish we could nail down an outcome the way that we most prefer it would turn out. I don’t like surprises. I’m a planner by nature but life doesn’t care how uncomfortable a lack of predictability makes me. I wondered in yesterdays post, if perhaps this was what 2022 was teaching us. Don’t […]
