Where molecules become air I will meet you there Amidst the transformation that occurs Innocent of our observation Crinkles of a smile Appear at the corner of your eyes And I sigh Tension passing Dawn unfurling from night Begins with colour Streaking But first we lose the stars We could mourn their passing Or be […]
I was not depressed I was exhausted And furious I was not depressed I was ineffably sad and defeated I was not depressed I was lacking in vitality and direction I was not depressed I was grasping for answers into my own mortality and reason for being I was not depressed I was deeply fearful […]
How do you name something formless? That lies beneath the metaphysical skin of a mythical creature constructed by air strokes with an invisible paintbrush Try And you may come close to where my thoughts go at the moment Was it a shadow rippling across the field in the last shaft of sunlight before the onset […]
Wrote about this on Instagram this morning. A monk on a mountain will never learn as much about radical compassion and acceptance of others and self, as a person who is married and has children and extended family. The people who love us and who we love (and who annoy us at times) are our […]
When our fate is taken out of our hands And delivered into another’s The bridge between Becomes tenuous The sway And shake Without faith Each step feels dangerous Control is a myth of the mind Yet we read ourselves bedtime stories nightly Clinging tightly to the notion That if we click our heels three times […]
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 […]
