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 […]
The fluttering wind of a flock of birds wings Taking to the sky Scared from the grass They rise Feathers stroking, seeking Height In the flurry Forgotten A bird rests on the ground She will not rise Her time has flown Soft eyes Closing It seems a gentle thing Death Sad But really Isn’t it […]
And he asked me what I was writing As I sat in the sunshine Flannel shirt Old jeans Bare feet Brought back to earth After another flight of fancy Writing? Glasses shoved to nose I considered For a moment The point of my prose “Just the words to the human song.. A condition we share […]
Where do birds go when they die? I was thinking about this as I walked the paddocks this morning As I’ve done since a child, when I walked for miles too There are thousands of birds in the sky Huge flocks that circle Dipping Swerving Yet only a few corpses on the ground And never […]
And the mind had been in charge for too long I knew it But things were the way they were Because that’s how it is sometimes And we tell our body Just wait Soon Hold up there Don’t break And it waits Patiently As the mind has its way And our heart creeps right right […]
You don’t have to protect it you know I always thought I did Maybe Mum gave me that idea When she said Don’t wear it on your sleeve It’s just a little muscle surrounded by an aura But think about this As you sleep And everything else is relaxed It still beats On And On […]
