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…
Category: Poetry
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…
Little Miss
She steals the blankets and never makes the coffee A hurricane hard at work never a moments peace When there are so many things to see and do Find your tao seek inner peace become one with nature Are things to be heard and not listened to because for her The world is full of…
Hummingbird Beating
Truly I martyr myself at the altar of my own destruction at times and I pay others for the honour of being plundered by them Feeling like they will drink of my body forever so please pay it forwards And bleed for me my love into your veins and out in the world I am…
Breakthrough
Dear lonely one you are truly alone No one hears your pain or will know your suffering Even I who stands here mirroring your every move My lips powerless to kiss you better and my arms As far removed from yours as life from a corpse Not even I can soothe your utter misery You…
Poetry: Sunlight Flickers
Sunlight flickers through the clouds first a scattered drop Then heavier blowing in the wind like a monsoon at the beginning Of the stormy season nature is unstoppable irrational and under No circumstances predictable but nevertheless we try and predict The weather but all we know for sure is that when sunlight flickers Through the…
Poetry: Bless Me Softly
Bless me softly as I enter into your world I don’t want to be announced or loudly heard Give me the whisper of water turning into wine The kiss of your words between my heart and thine // Don’t bring me to brightly outshine another’s star But lend me soft lights and shaded tents near…
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