In a wild witchy grove where the wicked things grow Lay a teeny tiny mouse in his teeny tiny home It was made out of wicker and woodchips and moss And he lived with his wife who was really the boss He peeked out the window to see it was raining He whispered a prayer…
Author: Dr Rose Petrohilos
Writing, cups of tea + music on rainy days.
Alone
If I turn left I wander in a field of flowers Growing tall like poppies and wild like roses Through undulating hills that never end Windows with the starlight shining through Unbeginning freedom that continues to grow // But // If I turn right there is a man who darkens my door I would never…
Frozen In Time
Never lose your way in a thicket of words and rhyme When you could be so safe and sound frozen in time Don’t say a word keep it hush keep it quiet Maybe one day you’ll regret that you tried it The kingdom isn’t kind to ragged queens on the run Around every corner an…
Jelly
Have you ever found a jelly stuck to the back of a car seat Baked on underneath weeks of hot sunshine parked at the back of a lot Marked employees only but the customers park there anyway on the weekends When the orange light mixed in with dust fades into neon glowing lights From the…
Falling Forward In Time
// I think of you often and I wonder if you think of me Falling forward in time as we weave a grand tapestry It’s a funny thing life and I miss you as often as I thank The stars and tides for washing me up on new shores It’s a blessed life I live…
Lead Me A’Straya
Flicker flutter the wild winds blow Across the outback through the desert and so You think you can dance to a thunderstorm’s beat Get out of my kitchen if you can’t handle the heat Road shimmer black tar and squeaky old gates Pool at the pub and a quick beer with mates Lead me down…
Visions
The trouble with seeing the future lies not in knowing what shouldn’t be known but in aching for it welcoming it taking the time to melt into it Because we create our futures do we not? We tend to them like our dearest children or most fickle house plants we nurture them and hope that…
From A Certain Point Of View
From a certain point of view everything looks just so quite set very normal no regret Under the hood pop the belly of the beast the writhing worms my stomach turns Under the frightening wooded grove I bend down over my treasure trove My heart once cold burns hot with fever it’s painfully slow to…
Spice
Some say the world ends in fire and some say it ends in ice But I know it ends happily ever after with cinnamon sugar and spice No city ever stood for time without facing barbarous conquest But kisses that soothe and honey that mends sets a clawed beast to rest When the floods beckon…
Bloody Damned Thing
For Victory! It’s a damned funny thing we lovers have that we sometimes call a heart they’re so easy to lose and I looked for mine a very long time before I found it And do you know what the funny thing is about finding the damned thinker-thunker again after all this time? It has…
MarieAthena & Co 