You can write a lot about yourself Without ever getting anywhere close All these thoughts spill out And we take them so personally at the time In the end they are just bits of nothing Already over by the time the next emotion comes bubbling up So what do they add up to? I used […]
You can only go so far With what you know And who you are Before you find yourself ringed in By the mind. You’ve built yourself to here With blocks taken from around you Books People History Lessons Yet still you come to a wall that you never realised was part of the map So […]
Lamp glow sanctuary Rain and wind strike the windows Making me so very glad I live Inside Some people shelter Under bridges Building awnings Hollow eyes A warning Of how quickly the bottom can drop away Walking on this earth We make choices every day To what we give the pieces of our lives Our […]
Am I creating a painting Art In the universe somewhere Is someone looking down As I go round and round and round Are the places where I grieved black Are the places where I loved red Up there Down here Things are changing My spirit is just a paintbrush Painting
A circle has no openings No gate To let synchronicity in How circular are you being? Life runs in patterns So do humans However, all too often we end up in a closed circuit A circle Sameness Same people Same place Same reactions Same stance Running on a track We think is headed somewhere But […]
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. […]
Ego Is me In front of me Blocking me Preventing me From seeing Anything else When I look at you I see me When I look around A thousand meeeeeees Spring up A forest Of trees Falling For the sake of me And I’ve had enough Buddha said if you see your beloved on the […]
The thought Weakens the bones And how you felt Barely 10 minutes ago Simply doesn’t apply now *It amazes me the range of emotions I can experience in one day but always by evening I’m doubtful and walking backwards and wanting to hide again. But I can’t Not anymore Because hiding doesn’t make me feel […]
You give me your words And I weave them in Stitching deep Beneath my skin On the outside I look like me But within I’m becoming A little bit of everyone *such a special month of stories – only a few left to go. Every time I write up an interview, add photos and create, […]
Reassurance Asking questions That make no sense Receiving promises Impossible to keep Telling yourself Okay then.. But underneath You know nothing is going to make a spot of difference Some things will play out the way they will Despite the twenty questions Forty replies And those games we all play With pies in the sky […]
