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 […]
She was the voice in my head Before my own began a subtle sound I couldn’t understand But loved Later She was the voice in my head when I struggled or worried or was confused Now She is the voice in my head Even though her bones are long dead She reminds me that once […]
In the peaceful Dark Quiet Beginnings of a new day The colours of it just appearing Spreading tentative fingers of light Over the horizon Air cool upon my skin Mind fresh from diving deep within Cleared of the hate of yesterday’s rant I will tell you a story A story of my dream In it […]
Sorry not sorry The big orange (thanks Ray you’re right) He is orange buffoon has bent me sideways and over the moon (the rhyme is so obvious – fetch me another word brain – fetch me another oh don’t bother) I am over the moon over that buffoon (another obvious device – brain you imbecile […]
When I write Every day I am honing a craft And I am growing a raft for my thoughts which carry them from me to you And I am beginning to understand the power the energy of words so they have become WORDS not words to me anymore And my brain is organising this process […]
You sit across from me There are two here and another one just there But they don’t hear you ask “what is it you eat?” with that half bored expression of not really being interested in your own question And I blink Start to think Come – with – me No I don’t want to […]
Firstly I want to acknowledge the first people to walk on this great country. The original and aboriginal Australians. I know that Australia Day is also the day that changed everything for your ancestors. I empathise with that feeling. I do so by imagining what that would feel like for me. I love this country […]
I looked at the moon last night It hung An orange crescent Like a fishing hook For my thoughts So I lent it some It was late Or early Early for today Late for yesterday But right somehow For writing So I did I wrote for two hours because At those hours With only a […]
Sometimes you just have to step away from the keyboard and do something a bit different. After all the turbulence in my mind the last couple of days it was nice to turn it to something else. Today I did some salvaging and repurposing of tired furniture using chalk paint. If you’ve never used it […]
Far away on the veldt where the golden grass sways A lioness drops her head says “when is it coming Mother – our numbers are dwindling” “Soon” Whispers the moon Adrift In the ocean Another harpoon A mother loses her child watching it hauled flopping and bloody on to the vessel The men running to […]
