A sweet good night My hand trails across highs and lows Brightly I farewell the mountains Dab dazzles on the water Tickle playfully across tree tops and grass tips Finger paint the world in flame fading to purple A delicate tease, a lingering touch A last caress before sleep
Behind your eyes
Locked and chained behind your eyes Imprisoned by your own fear What’s there to be scared of, people say Everything Threat every way you turn Beset by those more powerful People love to strike out The best defence is a good offence And on the bottom of the rung There is nowhere to run Except…
The brawl
Soaked air oozes sluggishly The world is heavy and wet Building up and preparing Waiting for a moment, the moment Hard light tiptoes across the sky Reaching to touch the earth with smoking finger Clouds grumble and shout Bang and crash, make a racket Wind races through with a whistle and a wail The…
Hourglass
Between potential and accomplishment Between thought and action Between start and completion therein lies this moment and this is where we live All else is irrelevant History and mystery Now is everything It's the neck of the hourglass the blink between about-to-fall and landed between going-to and all-done Live in the now in the neck…
Create Destroy
Charcoal to parchment the designer creates Stone upon stone the labourers bring Chisel to stone, the sculptor shapes Cathedral rises, to honour the King Atoms and poison, the scientists’ domain Working and slaving until the job’s done To end a war is their laudable aim Mushroom blossoms to blot out the sun Mallets and picks,…
Dryad
Arms of leaf and twig open To embrace the sky Embrace the universe Embrace the One who orders all things Eating and drinking sun and soil, Water and all goodness Imbibing Spirit and returning God’s grace and love to heaven Life in, life out All in balance, together we Whirl through the Earth’s…
Wheel turns
The higher you soar, the harder you fall And this height was lofty indeed Icarus, you flew too near the sun Now wingless, you are earthbound Face in the dirt, as low as you can go Maybe you should stay there Burrow in, disappear Prostrate yourself, eat dust and die Ground receive you, earth devour…
The Blame game
The woman gave me, I did eat She did, she did, he cries! The woman did it, punish her She tricked me with her lies. And through the ages, on and on The same old male refrain The woman did it, it was her And I am not to blame Satan slithers back…
Ocean cold, sunless deep
Moon rise on a mystic shore Waves lapping softly at the shadowed sand Splashing in the shallows Laughter floats across the star-strewn bay They rise from the deep hoist themselves onto glistening rock or glittering beach Ungainly and awkward out of the water Golden girls combing waist deep tresses Bronze boys talking and laughing Scintillating…
Tantalus
If only I could hold it That intangible something Always just beyond reach Like voices in another room With the door slightly ajar They speak, but I can’t hear what they say One day I might push open that door And rush in to kneel before the speakers I will humbly say ‘teach me what…
Eclectic Assemblage 