It seems like only yesterday You were complaining I never come to visit Not often enough I would remind you When I last visited But you would not remember (or that’s what you said) It seems like only yesterday You were saying How hard it was to be old How no one cared, no one…
A murmuration of starlings covers the sky A thousand small souls wheeling in synchronised flight One mind, one heart They dance for themselves, they dance for love, They dance for the sheer enjoyment of their fleeting art They write their story in the air Exuberant words that only God can read Each bird in tandem…
With silver arrows the Hunter hunts The monster in the night The Hunter is blessed by the Gods of the Hunt Her weapons consecrated to protect the peace Silver arrows, sacred and true To slay the beast and save the people It cannot be harmed with sword or spear or knife Its magic is stronger…
It’s broken Worse, smashed to smithereens No point keeping it Throw it away, you tell yourself Yes, says everyone around you It’s past fixing, throw it away So you do, or You thought you did Until you find it Hidden away in a corner Waiting for you to see And this is the mystery If…
Hungry for something A bottomless pit where your heart used to be Nothing will fill you And you’ve tried it all Testing the limits of your internal void All you hear are echoes All you see when you confront your abyss Are the eyes of your spirit confronting you back Starvation of the soul Yearning…
What do crickets sing about stories of moon and earth and growing things Music of birth and death The dance of life and all the joy it brings Crickets rise at dusk Their road is under stars and through the cooling breeze Cricket song lulls us to blissful sleep Their day is night We dream…
When you were six Christmas was a barbie doll and clothes for her to wear She would go on to join the doll family and have adventures When you were sixteen The clothes were for you And adventures were only in your dreams When you were twenty-six Christmas was a minefield of family drama While…
Across the multiverse, they say There are infinite possibilities So many decisions that might have led Down different paths What would I say to parallel me Would I be full of ‘if only’ If only I’d tried harder, worked harder If only I hadn’t run away If only I was brave Then I could have…
Lost and alone in a world of hurt and pain Knives fly suddenly out of the hostile dark A future stolen, a present filled with fear How do we grow from here? A yawning chasm gapes wide A maze of a million directions lies ahead Frozen in fear from impossible choice How do we find…
“Smile!” they chirp, plastic grins on plastic faces Cheery demands to friends, colleagues, complete strangers Cheesy humour, blasé assumptions “It’s not that bad! It might not happen! Smile! Come on, smile!” Smile? What for? What makes you think your greeting card jolly will help What goes through your head? Do you really believe Your perky…
Eclectic Assemblage 