The Ventriloquist

AsideJuly 6, 2020July 5, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper19 Comments

There are these voices That live in my head I’m not mad We all have them there Listen to them How do they sound? Are they male Or female? Also Are they familiar? Mine are I have my Dad Among others Exasperated In fact most of my inner critics Are male – I hear them […]

Let jealousy be a beacon and Envy the rubber sole to your shoes…

AsideJune 24, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper5 Comments

When jealousy alights on your shoulder And envy digs it’s claws in your chest Listen Because they are showing you your next step All too often these emotions are shown with a negative light Because they feel negative and can be toxic if not addressed maturely But if you slide the switch to the other […]

Authenticity

AsideJune 23, 2020June 22, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper16 Comments

There is a place in the throat You can feel it when you swallow Words They form a clump Like a jar lid Keeping emotions inside Contained Be careful of the seal Things can go rotten in there Restraint is commendable But stomach acid does terrible Things To an inside that doesn’t ring true

Lose your fear of flying

AsideApril 24, 2020April 23, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper12 Comments

Fear Paralysing Heat rushing Heart sinking Shame Shame Shame The fear of failing being seen as lame lame lame I’ve had all these fears All these moments Again and Again and again And I’m still alive There is a second sometimes when I post something Where I literally have to walk through a brick wall […]

Moving up a level in the game

April 17, 2020April 17, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper11 Comments

Life is long

If we are lucky.

Days blur

Weeks passing like high speed trains

The refrain of which

Echo in habits and cycles and a great deal of internal conversation

The human mind regurgitates ideas like a cow chewing cud

The same song, words, stuff goes around and around

Yet out of all this oblivion

Arise Pivotel moments

You might experience half a dozen small eruptions when you think

“I have got to change”

“I must“

But change doesn’t happen

Or it does

But is not lasting

Then there are moments

Soft as a cats paw sneaking

Silent as a flower head

Unfolding

Blooming

Pivotel moments

When you walk through an open door

And never go back

To the way you were before

Like wind to the sails in the midst of doldrums

Search the horizon for those moments

When they arrive

Jump on

Enjoy the rise

Your next level has arrived

*and after seemingly an interminably long time striving – when the moment arrives, it is as easy, effortless and surprising as a natural unfurling of intention.

Highlight Highs don’t last as the days slip by

AsideApril 7, 2020April 7, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper18 Comments

I was consuming unwisely Trying To eat a life that I couldn’t have But I wanted so bad I didn’t realise in my search for a highlight high True meaning doesn’t come in the form of highlights Only epiphanies And it can’t be eaten like that hot cross bun A piece of chocolate Or an […]

Shut the window

AsideMarch 28, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper8 Comments

Time It runs through my fingers Flies through the window Leaving me restless Where would I have been had I shut the opening Blocked the call of endless potential And simply let some things stick *I have an endless capacity for change. Picking up one thing, I love it and learn everything about it. Sometimes […]

Integrity – The state of being whole and undivided

AsideFebruary 17, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper13 Comments

What if we loved ourselves From the inside out Spent time Not on trying to understand others And the world around us But instead What lies within Once we are sure Of who we are And can stand undivided By internal war And bickering Everything “Out there” Reveals itself as a reflection We realise We […]

Becoming Authentic beneath this Leo Moon

AsideFebruary 10, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper32 Comments

It’s the Leo full moon As I type it’s early morning here Dark Yet the big heavy moon hangs like a tea drop Like a mirror Like a silver plate of my Grandmothers That as a child I used to stare into Who are we? Who am I? We have all these layers that life […]

Forgiving the Wrong Doer

AsideJanuary 30, 2020April 17, 2020 athousandbitsofpaper21 Comments

The wrong doer Is not allowed into the sunlight She consists Subsists Of all those stupid things I have done The wrong doer is not alowed out Into the warmth Of my approval She is the wrong doer Sad This part I used to hate Of late Instead I pity her No adulation Approval Applause […]

Kate Duff Poetry

Be the change….

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