Inside everybody is a monster and the monster whispers that it is everybody but actually it’s a nobody nothing of substance except a blackened strip of velcro to which every negative word and memory clings like lint Everybody isn’t out there It’s in here And when it stands up it becomes nothing but a curtain […]
Efficiency Can sometimes be mistaken for bluntness And laughter For making fun of … A word that was said or written Has several connotations depending on the ear the eye of the beholder. Raindrops fall without wondering how they’ll land All you can do is apologise For misunderstandings But never for yourself You are nature […]
Am I frozen in your mind encapsulated in a judgement you made about me so long ago? Pity the rock kicked in the road it hurts the passing toe but is ignorant of it’s own nature. Pity the wall built a hundred years old paint layered thick thick, thick, thickly over timber once so pretty […]
The freedom to think naturally Move easily To let emotions come and go Without being trapped in their snare nor beguiled by thoughts and cravings. To let others simply be and it all occur. Held by the structure that Is self designed installed and embraced daily. I don’t even have to think about it anymore […]
Look for yourself in yesterdays footprints The wind has erased your passing Look for yourself in the thoughts that you had a year ago You are not there you barely remember what you had for breakfast last Tuesday We wake, we think thoughts and we journey over the day The hills, the valleys Emotional highs […]
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 […]
When my younger son was in grade three or four he told me about a project he needed to do for school. Me, being a crafter, was instantly inspired and together we bought cardboard and new coloured markers and set about printing out pictures and googling and finding information together. It was so much fun, […]
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 […]
