Walking in silence Sitting in silence Bathing in silence Letting it roll around my feet My heart Allowing silence to drift up from the leaf strewn path Trickle into my legs Wrap silken bonds around my head Muffling noises Settling voices that would otherwise take me away from here Listening to the fire crackle Watch […]
I hear your click clack feet across the deck A curious small face peers at me I smile back Am I in your world, or are you in mine? For both of our sakes I hope I’m in yours *hiking and staying in a national park in the coastal hinterland this week-end. I prefer the […]
I watch you cut my hair Ticking time bomb in your chest I didn’t know it was there When I walked in You greeted me as you always do Full of energy Full of zoom And then, when I complimented your wing of white blonde hair Your eyes ducked out from beneath Met mine in […]
If you’ve ever wondered why a poet writes … I have written hundreds of poems, many that I love Some, I don’t even think I write, they are kind enough to write themselves for me, and fall into lines that I enjoy and share They are there in the ups And there in the downs […]
Rain drops run rivulets Down the iron Along bark They run and they run until they simply run out Soak in and stop Lying in bed I listen to them scatter and thrum Wondering How it would feel To be a raindrop running Joining and splitting, becoming greater, smaller Turning into a puddle, forming a […]
I cannot stop the sky from raining on you I cannot prevent the sharp edges that close in either I cannot stop the pain of growth, I just have to move back and let it come I cannot prevent the rough patches that scrape the dimples from your cheek Wipe the smile from your eyes […]
Driving into the setting sun The glare of dusty gold speckles on the windscreen They glisten like jewels, but are just dead bugs Combined with the silver bright halo of haze I am blindfolded For minutes at a time I can’t see the edges of the road The middle is a bright white blurr I […]
I awoke worried By a fiend of my brain Figment of imagination It cast no shadow as I turned on the light Nor ever will These things which make us fret Toss and turn Tumbling heartbeats in our sleep Are not real To reach out a hand is to smite a ghost The only head […]
I walk along a track It sheds gold dust in the wind Coating my jacket Powdering my pants A weed by any other name Turnip, a common pest Yet it makes my insides smile to look at it Winding through fields where the flowers have begun to bloom Spring is approaching And I am watching […]
Saturday evening I’ve done nothing I planned But the day doesn’t care And the sun sets regardless *My to do list became taken over by others today. The dog who needed to be taken to the vet, and then the holdup as the vet was attending to a dog with snake bite. I was slightly […]
