Reveries Journal | No. 26
We hold ourselves to impossible standards sometimes
Tag: storytelling
Bolts from above
Struck by lightening in the middle of a field Drowned in a dam Hit by a car Tree falls Leaving a scar Where a human has been We cling precariously To fate Avoiding at all costs Our use by date And all the while Death smiles gently Shakes its head And whispers You really could […]
An Italian poet
La pioggia stilla The rain drips|trickles … La pioggia scivola The rain slides|glides … La pioggia cade lieve The rain falls softly …. La pioggia sussurra The rain whispers … La pioggia sussurra alla finestra The rain whispers at the window Ahhhhh Vivi nella bellezza Live in beauty … I’m learning Italian. My mind is […]
Tells
The older you grow The more words begin to sound the same as the feeling they invoke Shallow Broken Peeling And I wonder if that is because we know their meaning with such intensity Because it has been felt At depth Within Tip toed across tender skin That they conjure instantly Holograms to dance upon […]
The Road
The colour of soil and pebble Tree and rock Boulders in the shade Falling just the same way As elsewhere I’ve seen Landscape passing through recalling a scene or view Found hundreds of miles away And people are like that too Mannerisms A flash of a smile And the ghost of someone I once knew […]
Resonance
The lessons that come Wrapped in skin Who walk alongside for a while Glimmers of laughter Sparkles of smiles Wisdom dropped like tea leaves Percolated through a filter of life experience Thoughts meandering Emerging as something new Different points of view Threads pulled into a tapestry by fate Some will last a lifetime echoing on […]
The Secret of Trees
And the trees begin to whisper like they are sharing a secret that only they can hear But if I’m very quiet And very clear I can hear it too *In silence, nature, everything becomes clear, it’s as if we too become our natural selves and blend into the breath of the earth, the breeze. […]
The Wisdom of Fluctuation in Creative Living
The revolution of a spiral. A circle. The wind-chime sound of movement. If all we are doing is constantly changing, who are we to claim authenticity? What does authenticity resemble when the self is disassembling daily? Somewhere in all the motion — the incomplete decisions, the conflicting inner opinions — is a small, anchored “I.” […]
Why I write in public | and still do | and always will
I’m writing as my personal self on Instagram again. As writers, we have an audience — but not all audiences are the same. When I’m writing to the WordPress community, I come as I am. I always have. The fact that other people outside of WP can see what I write in my slippers and […]
The Love Behind Every Creation: Why It Matters
If you don’t love what you make You won’t look after it when times are tough Imagine if you gave birth to your children And didn’t love them Didn’t love them like you would die in their place In a second Without a thought Not an inkling of hesitation Imagine what would happen to them […]