In the gap between this task and another and this thought and the next one and the concern I have for this and that other thing which might occur and all of this mental weight and the physical burden the sheer enormity of stuff to do Is there any space for love? And is loving […]
If I were to ask the sky Why? It wouldn’t tell me And if I were to ask a human They would tell me from their experience Not mine If I were to ask my dog She would speak with her eyes But I cannot fathom what that means Questioning of the mind can be […]
Our path is buried beneath layers of brambles, old rubbish And the wind blown detritus of years spent learning what was not for us Not of us Every day I sweep anew Asking Is this mine? And the way appears Shining clearly But it’s only ten feet wide And ten feet deep So I have […]
To know how to live Don’t ask humans Ask the stars I wish I knew them Many are dead and already gone And yet their light continues on Perhaps in that fact Is the kernel of truth Live so what you leave burns forward too Our bodies are fragile and have to die But who […]
I wish I had never developed this thing Now it’s grown so big It is difficult to get rid of I wish when it first entered my heart At the very start I had the wisdom back then to drop it I’ve been feeding it now For twenty-five years It’s heavy It’s big And it […]
There is a lot in me Far too much to contain at times It can come out in “wrong” ways if I let it So when I feel too much And can no longer expand without busting I take myself off And breathe into vast spaces that can hold me And then I can go […]
A feather spirals from high above I stop and watch it Walk over and pick it up There is no magic in how it flew From a body with wings high above It dropped Gravity sucking it down Down to the ground where I stood But it fell so gracefully That it stopped time for […]
Who do you see when you look at me? I don’t think you know We filter so much of who we think people to be I wonder how anyone could change at all How sad to be trapped in another persons mind If that’s who you think you are And haven’t looked to find yourself […]
Dreaming of Flowers Candles Incense A cool Autumn breeze Green tea sipped from a pretty cup Piano music tinkling over my shattered nerves Picking them up, one by one, knitting them into a harmony Something to hold me together Each day, a little of this mountain is conquered I take notes for the next day […]
A shaft of sunlight caught my eye So golden I turned through the window I saw the sky changing colour I watched pink rimmed clouds transform It is evening I have lost hours writing But this matters too Beauty Peace Matters Too *yes it does
