Truth – double tetractys

Truth

is just

listening

with heart open

let it in and don’t ask to understand

Stupefied by light

Go on!

Out with you!

I demand

of the busy mass of tiny insects

stupefied by light,

preparing their own sacrifice

on the altar of warmth and brightness

Fear and Love

Poetry challenge: Diamante.

Fear

cold, destructive

refusing, closing, denying

halts life, connects everything

A Tanka

‘To whom do you bow?’

There’s a blush in the room then

Did I ask that aloud?

The palms you meet before me

scare me into expansion

Will you play me?

If I were a violin Would you play me?

If I keep my strings perfectly tuned

Neither too loose nor too tight

Will you play me?

For I yearn to hear that heavenly music

And yet I’m impatient

For I fear that I have yet to become

The violin you need me to be

And so mistakenly I allow myself to believe

That I can play that music by myself – alone

Sweet child relax

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Sun Shy

I’ve got it all;

the sunscreen and block,

straw hat with a rim,

sexy sunglasses – check.

 

My beach bag is full

of my anti-light tools,

the darkness I need

to feel safe and look cool.

Poetry challenge: Self Portrait

To know my body

look to my garden

wild and untamed

with nourishment hidden

in the necessary nurtured places

but no extra flowers or scents

to detract from earthy vitality

Hiding light

I see a man

benevolent and shining

holding a candle

to a darkened room

looking for the switch

Pairless

Everything ought

to come in pairs,

ask Noah,

so I wondered

where your other half was.

A Better View

‘What are my gifts?’

you asked,

believing I,

outside of you,

would have a better view.

Fear?

Is courage

traveling without a credit card

‘for emergencies only’?

 

Am I brave if

spontaneously

I jump on a bus

destination unknown,

leaving my mobile behind

to receive only missed calls?

The Oldest Invitation

I knocked on God’s door

in the silence

last night

 

I didn’t know

whose door it was

until it opened

 

I got quite a shock

Spring (an upside down Nonet!)

Spring

Is here

The birds sing

Warm, welcome sun

opens shy flowers

Help (a Nonet)

Poetry challenge: Nonet.

Will you walk a mile in my shoes friend

To feel my aching, freezing feet

Bed down with me on cardboard

Cafe Home

Home is a cafe

with notebook and pen

where I write my way back

to me again.

No matter how busy

or bustling or loud

I write my way in,

close the door on the crowds.

A Haiku

Walking without you

Is a sort of awkward hop

You were my right leg

Tree climbing shoes

Spotted –

perfect climbing tree,

solid and sky high

with strong lower branches

for an easy get up.

What’s real?

If sea turns white

when it’s busy

but sparkles blue

‘neath cloudless skies

what colour is it really?

If my feet are a 6

but submerged in sea

they look like a 10

what size are they really then?

The Oasis

There’s an empty ache

that won’t let me write

my creative flow has sprung a leak

and any precious moisture left

has sunk

into the thirsty earth surrounding

Fire at my Centre

Fire at my centre,

burning as the core

shedding sacred light and warmth

with playful flicker roar.

Fire at my centre,

through my eyes you dance

telling stories long since past

as I gaze on entranced.

Soul Music

There once was a soul music everyone heard

sung by the rivers, the wind and the birds.

Keeping the beat were the earth and the sun,

warming our hearts with the sound of the drum.

That soul music plays still

within you and me,

but when do we listen?

It’s silent you see.

Thirst

I drank from the well

of laughter and fun,

but soon I moved on

for my thirst was not done

I drunk from the well

of productivity,

that tasted quite good

but it tired me

Claim me not

I am not yours to claim

Therefore claim me not.

Nor am I yours to hoard

therefore share me

with a generous heart

and know:

whatever you adore in me

is mine only

because I am everyone’s –

as I will it.

No need to mend me

No need to mend me

I’m not broken

Love the pieces I’m in

Accept them scattered before you