Who we are When we are asleep Is up for review I think Therefore I am But in sleep I dream Therefore I can Show myself the measure Of a potential Out of reach And waking Is a choice Of life Over sleep But I am aware Of every moment As complacency creeps On soft […]
I learned from the flood that it will stop raining eventually and the water will reach up to the eaves submerge the roof until the house dissapears and so does the earth but eventually the sky ceases to cry and the flood recedes the ground to dry and then grow grass and no one looking […]
Wild is a feeling That the fox knows well As she slips through the grass Ears held low Wild is a feeling That the hawk cries aloud As it circles high Above the ground Wild is the tree And wild is the flower And isn’t wild just another word For a lack of control Autonomous […]
The alluvial cast Of gravel beneath tyre Skittish and dusty Rubber above Metallic stone beneath Two surfaces colliding One soft and resilient The other sharp and stone Sounds like a puncture About to occur Or worse A combination of the crunch Shoulder to earth Perhaps A shattered collarbone Humans bones are extremely fragile Tense muscles […]
The older you grow The more words begin to sound the same as the feeling they invoke Shallow Broken Peeling And I wonder if that is because we know their meaning with such intensity Because it has been felt At depth Within Tip toed across tender skin That they conjure instantly Holograms to dance upon […]
Silence When everything is a mess Silence When it all shatters in your hands Silence Holds everything together Until reality takes over again Silence Is where God waits Silence Is where thinking ends And if you Just Descend Heart open Mouth closed Mind floating Silence Is Where it all begins again
Humans We think that if we carefully contain ourselves Inside our scant and small stretched hides That we will not be judged Cursed with criticism And if we do the “right” thing We shall abide in that all encompassing comfortable thing Called acceptance But I have discovered we are not made for acceptance Such a […]
Security line snakesPeople curling up insideLife forces draining through soles shuffling forwardOnwardBound for somewhereBut first and secondanother numbered gateBitterness settles in the crook in my shoulderBurdened by sagging strapLevity hanging by a threadA movement catches my attentionhigh aboveSparrow trapped and circlingCompassion bloomsSoftening the defeated curvature of spine and boneHere this small birdScraps aplenty on the […]
The colour of soil and pebble Tree and rock Boulders in the shade Falling just the same way As elsewhere I’ve seen Landscape passing through recalling a scene or view Found hundreds of miles away And people are like that too Mannerisms A flash of a smile And the ghost of someone I once knew […]
The lessons that come Wrapped in skin Who walk alongside for a while Glimmers of laughter Sparkles of smiles Wisdom dropped like tea leaves Percolated through a filter of life experience Thoughts meandering Emerging as something new Different points of view Threads pulled into a tapestry by fate Some will last a lifetime echoing on […]
