Waking me like the gentle slap of a kittens paw Tapping on my mind Shifting my feet restlessly I move to the kitchen pour coffee and stare at my own reflection in the dark window panes The glass doors are like mirrors black and reflective I ponder a woman sipping coffee in her slippers at […]
A bird does not sing in flight. For a bird to sing it must find a branch A stable perch A place to rest and revel in harmony A bird does not sing in flight Because it is concentrating on flying *Poetry is gold wrung from the stones life flings at us. At some point, […]
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 […]
Hot air released to the clouds Sighs flying Breathe in Breathe out Disappear from view Air balloons Transient moons Sun comes up Sun goes down Memories in between Inflated by emotions Land on my mind Misplaced by others Photos from my phone capture and recall Moments as intangible as all those Hot air balloons A […]
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 […]
This morning I was out walking when I saw a feather moving strangely along the path An ant was carrying the feather aloft and making astonishingly fast progress In comparison to the tiny ant, the feather looked large and unwieldy, difficult to carry Yet it was not, the ant was perfectly capable of carrying the […]
Conversation is a harmony to pay close attention to fault lines like dead notes in the middle of a tune the silence arises where velvet meets wood and there is no music As the key turns mute and no amount of playing can cover the mistake as the score returns again and again to that […]
Worry is a kind of prayer Or so I’ve come to realise I thought it was a lack of faith And perhaps it is, if it’s not directed anywhere My worry has always been directed to God And I believe it has always found its mark Because there is very little that I have worried […]
Our path is buried beneath layers of brambles, old rubbish And the wind blown detritus of years spent learning what was not for us Not of us Every day I sweep anew Asking Is this mine? And the way appears Shining clearly But it’s only ten feet wide And ten feet deep So I have […]
