So often we are hemmed in by our immediate surroundings and day to day troubles We forget to look up, look out Whether it is a line across the landscape or where the ocean meets the sky The horizon is a peaceful place On which to rest the eyes The heart The mind
Looking up, I become a blade of grass Let the sky Catch all the small human things And render them meaningless Just as they are
The sound of the TV Coming from the other room Reminds me there is still something We call the news That lately I choose Not to listen to And if I’m not there to hear it Does it mean Thousands aren’t dead All over the world That Trump hasn’t tweeted That women aren’t beaten And […]
You can say something a million different ways and each way with a combination of slightly different words and a slightly different angle will be received uniquely The quality of light sound texture aroma every time it enters us falls a certain way its own way, and how it falls, is something the mind decides […]
There is something about changing perspective Looking in through other windows And out of them That is deeply comforting To the soul We accept our lot We give thanks for what we have got And We open our minds To the have And have nots After all There is always someone worse off And then […]
I wish So much That sometimes we could just take love And paint in the holes Where life is rough on some else’s surface I wish So much That I could step in front Take the brunt But I can’t And anyway It is by being in the firing line We learn that mouths Aren’t […]
I travelled with a man Didn’t catch his name We got talking As I sat in his cab I’d been to a conference On tech usurping lives Here was walking proof On my taxi drive The cabbie Furious With Uber “They pick up customers in front of me – I want to kill them” He […]
