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 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 […]
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 highThe lowThe in betweenNot risingNor fallingNot yetAnythingTo catch it thereBeforeEverythingAnd decideWhat comes nextIf onlyI could
I continue to consistently write my newsletter each week at SubStack. It is changing the way I see writing and sharing on these sorts of platforms. Whereas years ago I used to post something and then check the stats and views, I now post and enjoy the satisfaction that comes with both self expression and […]
The smell of pencil shavings Soft wooden curls lined with graphite The sharpener whirrs I blow on the blade Dust floats to the bin Tools made sharper I sit again The example is before me The rest makes sense I draw the lines Stitching neurons in my head The satisfaction of making sense Is a […]
Stone in my pocket Teach me to carry Tumbled fingertips Worn smooth On rough edges Stone in my pocket Teach me to be still To gather sunshine Disperse darkness Stone in my pocket The silence is calm Slide through the water Straight to the bottom Landing quiet A little dust kicked up And then eternity […]
Learn from the leaf And not the tree Fall if you must But softly Be gentle with yourself Life isn’t easy The breeze tries to carry The wind shatters Tree crashes But the leaf Being light Knows descending gently matters The last week was like surmounting a personal Everest. Hard exhausting climb, exultant high of […]
my head has been full of words but no poetry no rhythm or rhyme of lilt It is like the birds stopped singing And the way the flowers from my birthday die brightly Yet they are still dead writing can be useful it can be sparse business like efficient It can explain Enable emailingggggg and […]
Listening to the fire place metal click Tick tick Only coals left now It’s all burnt down Becoming gentle grey ash That will be cold by morning Sitting with my back to the couch On the cool timber floor Warm air rising all around There is so much comfort to be found Present in the […]
