Feet Step Lightly on the earth My eyes know how far My mind recalls But my heart doesn’t care Suffering is something the body bears My soul surrounds me like a glove holding me up casting me further down the road I roll like a stone Over and over And eventually the mind Stops it’s […]
Today I really triedFor the first time in awhileAnd I now realiseHow easy and comfortable my stride has becomeHow quickly slip the words from my tongue“That’ll do”And out of that realisation grew a profound regret at how often I have snuffled my own potential.As effortless as blowing out a candle.I am suddenly very, very hungry […]
Still and stagnant water sits in a pond Open to the hot sun, it’s surface shrinks a little more every day It is dependent on the mercy of rain I wonder if consciousness is alive in its shallow depths? Still and brown Modelled in the shape of a brow, wrinkled in annoyance by the bugs […]
Cobwebs drift between tall grass clumps, spinning me a lighter than cashmere jumper as I run through strands Tall Box trees glinting green and gold, endowed with a thousand lucky pennies, mine drops at my feet and I scoop it up Tuck it in my pocket and run on even faster Soft earth absorbing the […]
To take the shattered pieces Of my ever thinking mind Torn fragments of a thought that travels Unravelling back to the beginning And then beginning again An echo in a chamber full of echos Reverberating restlessly. To quiet the inner ear To block the outer that hears And sink into stillness That knows no fear […]
There is a satisfaction in persistence And of course a pain But the pain doesn’t speak as loudly to the muscle As forbearance shouts to the heart Expanding it Opening the mind To the idea That if today there was this untried moment Tomorrow lingers full of potential And I believe fatigue Is a switch […]
And around and around we go But when we choose the groove It’s a whole different ball game The revolutions and repetitions begin to work in our favour Lo and behold Progress *I started a “streak” 30 days ago – a running streak – set loop – no further no less 5.6km per day. The […]
This dirt road is full of patterns Marks Tyres from the cars that pass Snake slithers Lizards scrawling Birds that land and pace about And my own foot prints As I run this path Day after day Hieroglyphs that say Time is passing *Morning runs – blessed to be able to run. Blessed to be […]
The sky is full of clouds Broken off pieces of Styrofoam Tinged edges Painted pink and apricot Cast adrift they bob As I run happily beneath them *This is the longest stretch I can recall of going without a morning walk or run – two months, a lot of writing, always yoga of course but […]
