Poetry
October 3, 2015
in Poetry
The Song of a Motherless Son
I curled my hand around its grace; it touched my soul like a mother’s face.
September 27, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
Last Rites
Then when the stars tumble from the sky at the end, our shining will illuminate scars on love’s invincible face.
September 21, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
A Poetic Manifesto
I will speak out about my city in my ready northern tongue and make a simple solid vow to tell your stories with the honesty I got from you.
July 6, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
Keel Hauled
If you haven’t been keel hauled by life, then you’re not living.
July 1, 2015
in Poetry
A Poem for my Children
Your life is within, a fine filament that arises in your given soul.
June 30, 2015
in Photographs, Poetry
This is All the Life You Have
Believe in the bird’s song, and the way the sun rises, slowly, the steady beat of your pulse, at that pace you can love it all.
June 26, 2015
in Poetry, Reflections
Arriving in Magic – Revised
I have realised that my life in this magical world is about serving not grasping , about apprenticeship not mastery, about owning my own shadow and accepting the gracious loan of my creative faculties. Anything more is inflating and removes me from the extraordinary ordinariness
June 24, 2015
The Vow of Vulnerability
I have been somewhat overwhelmed by the reaction to the post 'Now I am 54' after it was graciously featured on ‘Freshly Pressed' It seems that many of us are sufferers from anxiety and depression or stand alongside someone who is.
June 20, 2015
in Poetry, Reflections
Uncurling
Yet in the circle of reflection on the morning of departure you saw all the rug pulls in another light and a voice said ‘you know there is great power in your falling’.