Ordinary Goes in Search of Awe|dinary
Preparation for travel requires a collaboration between the important list written by the executive function and the itinerary prepared by the adventurous soul and artist.
Tag: Travel
Axis tipped
A wild thing sits at my door Craving spirals past my defences Tip toes over the mat Skids along the floor I’m not sure where it came from Or when No use standing here wondering I’ll sit down on the stair Wait for it to come out from in there As long as I don’t […]
The Pool Man
I have a photography human story project going on Substack. No need to subscribe. If you do it is free. What I love about this project is a lady on the other side of the world announced in my comments she was off to strike up a conversation with her butcher after she read my […]
Life is difficult
One day to the next Weather changing Sometimes varying enormously Emotions Veering from bright To gloomy A flurry of worry setting in One day to the next Can feel like travelling a lifetime away Only to return To a different array of feelings thoughts No two moments are the same And neither am I We […]
Intoxication
Brightest sun middle of the day I cannot stand to return its gaze, but in the early morning as it barely lifts above the horizon, I breathe in golden light, with open eyes feeling it expand to fill my temples. I carry the memory of colour, radiance, birdsong, all day long and it warms me. […]
When you feel important
Look for yourself in yesterdays footprints The wind has erased your passing Look for yourself in the thoughts that you had a year ago You are not there you barely remember what you had for breakfast last Tuesday We wake, we think thoughts and we journey over the day The hills, the valleys Emotional highs […]
A penchant for pyromania
I have a spaceship inside of me A time machine too As you create a thousand waves of stress out there I step inside Close the hatch And transcend *I began meditating for the same reasons everyone does – to destress, calm down, health benefits, becoming more mindful. But there is something else, somewhere else, […]
Jelly Fish Tongue
Adrift in the seaGraceful ballerinasEffortless jetesElegant pirouettesMesmerisingTranslucentBeautyAbandoned on the beachParched and dryingA child pokes with a stickMy tender heart pities For I have a jelly fish tongueWhen writing it dancesDextrousFlexing with easeBut when I speakI am marooned on the beachParched and dryingI poke it with a stickAlas, it freezes Header Photo: a snap I took […]
Packing Unpacking and Repacking
Travel takes me to a time and place which doesn’t exist During my everyday existence Living in that space Thinking from that place Giving myself the grace to grow Consider potential instead of limits Picture my life without the regular me in it I expand effortlessly And I can’t shrink back So I must repack […]
Blue is a colour, not a feeling
The bluer the sky The bluer the sea I dwell in the sliver, in between And I am not blue Not even a bit I drift on the tide Breathing *After my morning spent snorkeling, I sat watching the water change colour in tune with the sun sparking in and out from behind clouds. As […]