High above Or perhaps below She is threading us into a necklace The interweaving connections As delicate as the plumage in a beautiful birds wing We can’t see it Of course we never could This little phone That one there Scientist Butcher Garbage man Cook Computers School children Politicians The great World Wide Web WWW […]
Setting: Lennons hotel Brisbane, Early 2020… The waiter takes my order As a single diner I have chosen a smaller table Beside the only other smaller table With two guys seated a shoulders width over I begin to tune in to their conversation Certainly can’t tune it out They are very loud spoken The different […]
Happy Sunday another scheduled post with one of the earlier poetry movies that I did. https://athousandbitsofpaper.com/2019/11/21/the-voice-in-our-head/ Back tomorrow. Stay well and enjoy your Saturday or Sunday whichever it is in your part of the world.
Fear Paralysing Heat rushing Heart sinking Shame Shame Shame The fear of failing being seen as lame lame lame I’ve had all these fears All these moments Again and Again and again And I’m still alive There is a second sometimes when I post something Where I literally have to walk through a brick wall […]
Bloom in my chest Rush to my face Smile Like a flower opening I want to hold it for awhile Enjoy the colour Scent Sweetness Alas night sets in The editing Brings doubt The flower shrinks Dropping petals behind me as I walk out Switch off the light But before I close my eyes Alone […]
Why have I come back? Well let’s not put the cart before the horse Why did I shut down the blog in the first place? Which took me awhile to fully understand myself Short answer? Because I hate failing And I was failing – or felt I was I lacked the courage and intestinal fortitude […]
I’m back. I’ve been skirting around the edges of WordPress for awhile – it’s so difficult to pick up the reins again once a blog has died beneath you and to get back into writing. And blogs do literally (no pun intended but…) die. The funeral is past – readers drift away, things change. One […]
Shearing time – one of the most exciting times of year in the rural calendar. At least it was for me growing up on a sheep station. I still get excited about shearing because it was such a huge event in my childhood. It was when strangers arrived at our property and stayed in the […]
I think of myself as a story teller. I enjoy using my imagination to get into my characters heads. I didn’t realise until this morning just how much my propensity for storytelling applies to myself and the so called “real world” around me. This morning’s writing session began with my notebook and pen. So […]
A scene from the highway A different sort of traffics jam They have right of way Camera- Olympus Om D Em1
