Almost If only I should have Could have These words rotate endlessly In the air about the head Things we wish we could have If only Instead They are collective verbs and nouns Seen in the here and now Yet used to describe Sighed Often with regret Someone whose time we shared Who now has […]
When you don’t drink And you change your small view of the world The world opens up Waiting for life to change And not changing within yourself? Well good luck with that but I suspect it would be an uphill battle. Once you shift within yourself however things that you previously wouldn’t consider Shift, broaden […]
Walking down a path I’ve never seen before Round corners And up hills Roaming for hours With only an orange in my pocket Time stops And I can’t remember what I was even worried about Freedom is leaving And it’s arriving It may be up an unfamiliar road Travelled single file alone Walking circles in […]
Footprints follow wherever I tread Ink flows on the paper Trailing dreamings from my head And heart We leave marks Songlines Tracks Leading back A child’s sandcastle is gone on the tide I watch it fall Wondering what is the point of it all All this writing Stringing words together Creating pictures Leaving marks On […]
Thoughts Grazing upon each other Cannibalising potential As it rises Defeatist surmises That it’s probably not worth the bother How can this be the first thought That pure awareness produces Reduces The beginning of a day To some The day is over before it’s begun The optimist pipes The pessimist gripes And the realist just […]
We are the iron And the dust The dirt that coats our boots We are the hawk that flies Circling in an empty blue sky We are the grass The burrs and prickles The breeze that tickles The sweating hair at the nape of our necks As we trudge Reaching summits in steep hillsides Suddenly […]
I’m travelling again. I am addicted to it. Whether it is driving, flying or riding – travel grows space for the soul to find itself again. During normal life we tumble headlong into the habitual nooks and crannies of our lives. I am a real homebody so this love of travel is a weird juxtaposition […]
Yesterday I had a few near misses on the road For once I’m travelling in areas with high concentrations of traffic on the road Yesterday was particularly intense With people moving back and forth From Australia’s long weekend And I was winding down long long stretches of several mountain ranges With someone always revving behind […]
Wanderlust Noun A strong desire to travel Once ignited It starts to unravel a burning cord that is never satisfied It never reaches it’s destination There is no destination There is only travel For me wanderlust was ignited in the early 2000’s. I used to read this book to my boys It is a wonderful […]
We went up to the hinterland again this morning. I love it up there. My husband and I went earlier in the week to a little town full of art galleries and unique artisan shops – it was my cup of tea – literally as it turned out as there was a tea shop with […]
