There is a colour Between green and gold In the paddocks weighted down. Verdant grass with lush roots of spring growth heady with seed Green Turning Brown I tramp through the early morning light Watching the colours shift and sway One minute fresh One minute hay Thinking I feel a bit like that today
Human I feel you Dancing along beside me Because I am also human With eyes that see The invisible web that weaves around us all and through Palpable Resonating Encountering trouble in one Turning to another Winged fingers unknotting The invisible ties that bind Unravelling the goodness which defines Nearly all Humans Our genuine desire […]
A wild thing sits at my door Craving spirals past my defences Tip toes over the mat Skids along the floor I’m not sure where it came from Or when No use standing here wondering I’ll sit down on the stair Wait for it to come out from in there As long as I don’t […]
There is a callus That develops In the middle of the chest In children as we are hurt The greater it spreads By the time we arrive in adulthood It is difficult to breathe Think Speak Through anything but hard scar tissue. So there is a need to take a scalpel and slowly start to […]
It rises teaching me how to rise too. To leave everything on the ground Evaporate towards the clouds Becoming more transparent All around Fog to mist vapour to air Join with the clouds Come back down again As gentle rain That feeds the ground Grows the grass Nitrogen Descended Transformed Excreted Rises Transforms Deleted Never. […]
He asked me What on earth do you write about at 3am? I tried to explain it Probably failed Because You have to know what it’s like to sit in a dustbin full of crumpled papers for a headspace Where thoughts are compressed and expelled like vapour All day long and in such quantitude that […]
I watched you watching it Standing still mesmerised. Feet anchored deeply mired in sand that disappeared sliding through your toes Perfectly still Perfectly calm You stood like a candle Without melting And then finally, with a graceful turn Bending To build a sandcastle With the same gentle intensity I wondered who your parents were You […]
The warm air is breathed into the belly of the earth Sucked in In anticipation of dawn I feel the shift in temperature as I walk The moisture turns to frost A bird sings a poignant anthem And the sun rises Gently warming my shoulder My smiling cheek The camera buttons sleek beneath my frozen […]
It’s so easy to chuck in a self directed challenge. I’m up to date 6 of my photography challenge on Instagram and I struggled a little this morning. I thought I should be running instead of walking. I didn’t know what to take a photo of and I felt the need to get it over […]
I hear your click clack feet across the deck A curious small face peers at me I smile back Am I in your world, or are you in mine? For both of our sakes I hope I’m in yours *hiking and staying in a national park in the coastal hinterland this week-end. I prefer the […]
