I’ve arrived home to star grass season. I call it star grass, but it’s actual name is Hairy Panic Grass, possibly due to the fact that the sight of this stuff burying everything induces a feeling that is indeed akin to hairy panic. Piles of feather light seed heads piled up against any barrier, fences, […]
Rain closes the curtain on the horizon Soft dove grey meets gunmetal glimmer Tepid taps on already wet shoulders Saturated hair Fresh water mingles with salt Another wave breaks, and I sink into shifting sand far beneath the surface Lost temporarily in the noisy crashing silence Rising I breathe moisture Floating, tumbling foam drifts through […]
This morning it is raining again The sea is whipped into frenzied foaming white capped horses that beat at the shore and trample everything in their path To enter the ocean is like walking into a stampede, and who would do that? Not me, I wander along the high ground looking out Relishing the soft […]
High balcony leaping into spaceA man stands upon it with a faraway look upon his faceI walk belowContemplating the wavesDogs pass me, happy in the momentYetPulling on leads, eager to jump ahead to the next five minutes, the turn in the path, what is coming around the bend I have no leadNo wish to pullI […]
A part of me will always be missing Where once I was whole You cannot add limbs to a tree And not feel the lack when they fall Leaves turn colour, seeds fly away on the wind They land in other forests and begin again Once a heart has split , it will always be […]
Let my voice be a melody Reverberating with the energy of light Not hate Let my eyes be gentle, a reflection of my soul in control Not my ego Let my actions generate peace Let all toxins be rebuffed and may I only move With love *wouldn’t that be great, if we could all be […]
It is a gift to let go of things you know are no longer yours to hold Clutch And cling to Things that burn your fingers, trouble the mind Those that unspool and rewind, repeating over and over It is a blessing to be able to stand clear of the small pile of unnecessary thoughts, […]
Rainwater rinses the trees and rooves Draws a curtain around the views Shuttering the attention to the sound of gushing guttering Waterfall stairs Dripping leaves Bare feet sinking into slippery grass We walk past each other, heads bowed behind umbrellas The clouds of the last few days drifting, taking my somber mood with them A […]
This floating day, between now and then, and soon to beWith no definitive dateSomewhere past Christmas, yet not quite flipping calendars into a new yearDark clouds and a sodden beachEveryone I pass carries their anxiety in a fragile maskFurtive eyes wonderingfrom hour to hourWhat is coming around the bend They’ve let it loose. Set us […]
Weaving potential through fingertips grown sensitive to the thread Everything can be refashioned and repurposed New thinking on old thoughts, creating fresh insight, where once there was ought but failure and dead ends Revisiting the past with eyes grown wiser, older, kinder They say we can’t change what has already occurred, but we cannot change […]
