Tiny pebble skips easily across a pond It’s light Quick Exuberant A boulder drops heavy Creates a huge splash Falls to the bottom Water rushing to cover It is weighted Passive Lies inert Blocks the throat Momentarily No matter their size The pebble and the boulder still end up at the bottom of the river […]
From around age ten we begin taking out contracts Invisible signatures In indeliblee ink That say I know you And you know me But I don’t remember signing Away the right to forget Everything, and begin again *header picture of a tribe of boys playing on the beach. I was entranced by their rough and […]
In the gap between this task and another and this thought and the next one and the concern I have for this and that other thing which might occur and all of this mental weight and the physical burden the sheer enormity of stuff to do Is there any space for love? And is loving […]
Worry is a kind of prayer Or so I’ve come to realise I thought it was a lack of faith And perhaps it is, if it’s not directed anywhere My worry has always been directed to God And I believe it has always found its mark Because there is very little that I have worried […]
Disassociation We run away from ourselves, the situation, the thinking of things that provoke us The more resilient and strong we seem The further away from the true problems we have drifted I had no idea this was where I existed Away from myself had become home and I hung pictures on the wall Lived […]
If I paint by numbers I am assured of a certain picture The outline is the same as the image on the box and all I have to do is simply choose colours one by one Mechanically completing a version that someone else created And I can say I painted Well done! Faithfully following the […]
Life sits like an unopened present An invisible box that I daily circumnavigate Never opening Never revealing I give it a little shake sometimes Wonder what’s inside Yet like the celebratory treat a loved one has hidden, kept in store for me I’m never quite sure what to make of it – or some days […]
This morning it is raining again The sea is whipped into frenzied foaming white capped horses that beat at the shore and trample everything in their path To enter the ocean is like walking into a stampede, and who would do that? Not me, I wander along the high ground looking out Relishing the soft […]
I was listening to a podcast today from The Life Coach School. I haven’t listened to Brooke for a long time. There was a time when I listened to her everyday for six months or so. She still makes a lot of sense. This morning Brooke was talking about how important it is to be […]
A tree sitting in the garden Locked into place Held by roots, it cannot escape And yet it changes Season cycles turn green to brown Faded leaves fall and flutter to the ground Snakes that expand and lose their skin Growing a new one they begin again A cliff face may take a thousand years […]
