Everything that we are exists in the present moment Uncomfortable with our limitations we run Into the bottle The thin white line Of roads or drugs or shopping carts Empty boxes And empty hands Burning Ashes to ashes Dust to dust A life spent outside of ourselves is never enough When a decision is made […]
Growth is not measured in the present moment It is always by looking back, seeing the difference Between there and here, that we are able to take a bearing Growth is not linear, it is not lateral It is perhaps more accurately, a series of curves that only a certain spatial awareness gained from standing […]
The shadow of who we think we are looms tall and wide It blocks the light of potential that shines inside Every Single Person We have to confront this false thing again and again and again And it’s painful and raw and humbling We tumble through space at a thousand clicks a second Frozen in […]
Incrementally That’s how we die Year after year goes by and we don’t really stop to contemplate that we are aging The big signs aren’t always there either I’m fitter now then I was in my twenties I suffer no aches or pains A couple of silver hairs but not many and I rarely see […]
Today I really triedFor the first time in awhileAnd I now realiseHow easy and comfortable my stride has becomeHow quickly slip the words from my tongue“That’ll do”And out of that realisation grew a profound regret at how often I have snuffled my own potential.As effortless as blowing out a candle.I am suddenly very, very hungry […]
Still and stagnant water sits in a pond Open to the hot sun, it’s surface shrinks a little more every day It is dependent on the mercy of rain I wonder if consciousness is alive in its shallow depths? Still and brown Modelled in the shape of a brow, wrinkled in annoyance by the bugs […]
Why do we wish on dandelions Birthday candles Brief, delicate things that so easily disappear? Do we know then, that wishes are futile? Contretemps fought in the mind, outcomes turned over and over, like the forked breast bone of a chicken dragged away by ants But only after it has been pulled apart by the […]
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 […]
Life sits like an unopened present An invisible box that I daily circumnavigate Never opening Never revealing I give it a little shake sometimes Wonder what’s inside Yet like the celebratory treat a loved one has hidden, kept in store for me I’m never quite sure what to make of it – or some days […]
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, […]
