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 […]
Looking out the window Of a spaceship in flight An astronaut Could be forgiven For thinking this planet solid A simple spinning Green Blue Ball Zoom in closer And closer It isn’t a ball At all Closer in still Humans looming larger An eyeball Two Put them under a microscope Watch those globes disappear again […]
Words saturating Permeating Spinning tales of temporary things Which do not need to be continued Yet the words spin, drawing more from the passing thought Then it requires Words Filling the gap, they come spilling from my tongue I hear them gushing Where does the geyser lie Under the skin In the lungs? verbiage continues […]
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 […]
Shadow run beside me More real then this flesh and blood I avoid Look away Yet you keep coming I use distraction Hurry on Still you come Dogged Determined Breathing hotly on my neck Whispering “You haven’t faced me yet”. Ahh yet. There will come a day As many have come When I cannot dodge […]
An empty blue sky On an Autumn day The only sound That of a crow Calling In the background The dog sleeps in the corner Slightly snoring It should be peaceful Quiet The absence of movement Rendering the moment still and bottomless Instead My head fills every second with noise And being aware of it […]
Last week, my head was different Last week, some things mattered more than others And the things that mattered then Have been reduced to nothing this week I see now This week, the things that matter Will not be the same as the next Nor the one after Or the one after that And whilst […]
There is a whisper It says You should be doing Something else If I am writing, I should be doing the accounts If I’m cooking, I should be working out If I’m gardening, I should be cleaning the house And on and on it goes If I’m reading, I should be ironing If I’m ironing […]
I’m sitting on a plane One row forward and to my right A little girl hurts herself Parental panic! Here have your dolly Crying continues A lolly My phone Here look at this book The crying grows louder Dad hugs And pats Continues to offer distractions Distract Distract She cries louder Finally softening into sobs […]
Some days the world feels surreal Normal routines Comforting things Have a ripple running through the middle A hint of chaos A touch of the bazar Like someone left The door ajar To another dimension Around which is peering A completely different direction If I were to follow it for awhile I would find it […]
