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 […]
The most resilient life forms in the world Are among the smallest most fragile beings They cast webs of gossamer fine particles Again and again Morning dew sparkles on a dream just spun And I am reminded as I run Spiders Work tirelessly Repeating Repairing holes Rewriting Rewiring And casting their creations forward They greet […]
At first The words Were ants Easy to dismiss As they marched across the surface of my mind Dogma in every step I tried to cross over them Difficult When they loop beneath eyelids The onset of shingles Vaguely itching But not yet full blown hives The discomfort grew Which is when I realised What […]
I used to love circles As shapes They pleased me Curving endlessly Unstoppable in their resolution to resolve Everything Revolving Around and around The line eternally looping back on itself Which is of course I see now A tragedy Instead I choose triangles Sharply they soar Even turned upside down Or inside out There is […]
And the wildflowers are Mother Nature’s way of giving back to the ones who stayed *photo the Hilux dash loaded with wildflowers we were collecting happily from the paddock. It’s been a very rough decade long drought for those in far south west Queensland. It takes resilience and faith to stick out the dry periods. […]
I heard mention of the marathon monks of Tendai in a book I was reading last week-end and made a mental note to look them up A few days later and that mental post it fluttered down Reading today about the running monks here and their do or die challenge made me realise how easy […]
She said that she was hanging by a thread Find yourself a tree I said Some dirt Sit awhile Close your eyes And listen for the song of the ants Lifting several times their body weight They come Plying bitten off leaves The seeds of grass and flowers Working together Their communities are powerful They […]
Eagle lifting Thoughts sifting Foot connecting One after the other Mind drifting Hearing sentences Running through my head What he said She said Barbs that stick like burrs As consciousness whirls Memories dredging What does this mean? What did that? Nothing particularly matters Once you understand It’s all just words Habits People’s verbal vomits Things […]
