Talk to me of silence How it pools How it rolls How it covers the bowed shoulders With a soothing warm glow Talk to me of silence How it allows the lungs to breathe And the softer sounds of birdsong Come drifting the breeze Talk to me of silence Except then there wouldn’t be any […]
Seen collectively Trees are easy to dismiss as all the same Time spent with them however Tells a different story They are each unique From bark pattern to leaf To colour to lean To growth And that is one species alone So I go where trees grow To untangle my own Feelings Because feelings To […]
Picking up the pieces of my life again Knitting them together with writing Sunday’s post on SubStack
Have you noticed the sky? Birds flying? I watch them The little ones Their wings beat so furiously The big ones soar and glide. Curiously, I wonder, … Deliverance
How often we return to the past Because we knew what happened then How it ended And it feels safe Even though Perhaps it failed Or we did Yet the pages had spun all the way to the end And we knew now we could begin again Although the past is always catching up It […]
Sunday Was perhaps the most beautiful day in June I’ve seen Sunny all day Nothing cold (It’s supposed to be winter here) I gardened And pottered I drank tea And afterward I wrote a post For SubStack I haven’t written over there since March I got to the end And nearly left it sitting As […]
I choose the pasta Take the bag Pile it all in Smile And swipe my card Speak to an acquaintance Tick the list Yet underneath I’m writing poetry Trying to make sense Of the thoughts as they pass Lost in the beauty Of a sky Darkening Colours fading As I walk to where I parked […]
These are the words When there are no words When your head is empty And your heart is so full it may burst These are the words That bubble up Behind a tongue that is lodged To the roof of the mouth Jaw locked Throat blocked These are the words That hum As the body […]
There is a pane of glass In my house That the light shines through At 4pm In winter That sunbright shaft Touches the leaves of a plant in the corner That otherwise lives in the dark all day I hold my fingers to the glow Feel them warm Dust motes twirl Turned to gold Magical. […]
We limp along carrying certainty That bucket full of holes Only the pieces I drop Have ever told the truth Today I dropped the burden And walked With empty hands The energy was certain My fingers curled in air It was the bucket that was heavy I tried to carry everything in Without the handle […]
