Love Warrior poets Let it kill us again and again We allow pain to bloom and writhe Knowing it transmutes to something higher and drags our sorry souls with it We fly Rise high On the spinning and weaving breathing in the suffering And breathing out love It’s why people draw near Tell us their […]
People ask why We turn our words to describing painful things Poetry Gives grief wings It paints feathers over fragile skeletons It stops our bones crumbling And trails ink tattoos over scars It takes what is black And sprinkles it with stars Coal into diamonds Pressurised Compacted We crawl out from beneath what shattered us […]
I’m going to a funeral today For a little boy Who died at play In a backyard swimming pool On a bright and sunny day When the worst he should have got was sunburn I don’t want to go I don’t want to watch the pain blooming in his parents eyes A weed that will […]
When the muse sits on my shoulder Dictating words And I’m typing as fast as I can Fingers crawling Across the keyboard At a steady clip Thoughts drip Drip Drip I only own as much as she’ll give me And I don’t even own that My muse is not a dog But a rather fickle […]
Somebody asked me once Do you ever get worried you’re just going to run out of things to write about (on the blog) And to be honest I’d never thought about it But here’s the thing Do you ever run out of things to think about? To talk about? Well how can you run out […]
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Love is patient Love is kind Love is not envious Or rude … Except it is sometimes It is all those things And yet we still call it love Pick up the phone when it rings Slam it down Get angry Hurt Confused And I really wish Corinthians had written about that Told the truth […]
We are born alone And we die alone At our happiest and most triumphant We are alone And when we at our most forlorn When we mourn We are alone too These moments are when we are closest To the heart of who we really are Either becoming Or going Arriving Departing Heartfelt and excruciating […]
This is exciting stuff. For me at least – you all are about to get spammed – but just this once. 🙄😁😂 Remember how I wrote that post a week or so back about Kicking your own donkey (if not – a quick recap – it was about shifting paradigms and why it was important to […]
Why do we hoard it Saved for a rainy day A special thing Sacred I blame religion Worshipping just one deity In trying to love only one person, one family, one thing We limit ourselves Why not love a community A country A world Everything And everybody Why not love all those that are unloveable […]
