I’m looking for my honesty Not every day just sometimes When I remember That I don’t know what it is Or if it’s where I left it.
Read MoreEvery Body
Everyone needs a Mickey in their life, like mine who lights up dark and Shades me from the harshest of days Her beating heart my life blood.
Read MoreBody Memory
This getting older It feels like confidence and Competence and clarity And yet it looks like Mechanical wear and tear – betrayal by the body.
Read MoreDemocracy
Does (or can) it exist… … if it waves lily white flags And supremicists raging in defeat…(deceit?)… lose their delusional minds?
Read MoreYouth is over before you know it.
It’s been a long time Since fluoro lights and retail Tunes marked time between Makeup and music and smoke From cigarettes in nightclubs
Read MoreBody Pains
My knee aches today But not my heart, that one is Pumping baby, like I am ready to face this day just right after this coffee…
Read MoreAnd me
Revolutionary? To say I love me and you It is not a war And there is no either or Just an I love you …and me
Read MorePost Scripts
It has come to this: I write Post It notes to me And they say things like ‘You are enough’ and stuff like ‘You’ve got this, you have got this’.
Read MoreAching
A dying cat sprints Over the last finish line Innately hopeful Heart breakingly valliant And blind sided in defeat.
Read MoreWhen it’s time bury me here Under a Morten Bay Fig that’s Built like a Mack Truck With a solid beating heart And I’ll hug it’s grounded soul
Read Morea Tanka to a Mentor
I have grown to know More about me, less about Disingenuous Musings I had settled for As truth before I met you.
Read MoreThe Massage
Oh Danny Boy by panflute Pipes Bali into Westpoint While I toy with radical Acceptance like a Speech that someone else has penned For me to speak it’s tennet.
Read MoreA Tanka for Vetti
Defy gravity Crush crimson berries on ice Embrace falling rain And raise an alchemists glass Salutation joie de vie.
Read MoreA time…
Once upon a time When being political Was having an opinion On the merits of this or That and ideology Framed understanding That debate could change the world One dissected issue At a time… In a democracy valued And upheld: Those were the days.
Read MoreA tanka to you
I don’t know if you ….Love like I do and if you… Give love, being known – and do… You take up much space in time? Or could you hold space in mine?
Read MoreA Tanka to 2020
Fighting the virus We’re all in this together Unprecented Wear a mask and wash your hands Today we record no deaths
Read MoreA Solitary Walk
I’ve lost my reflection And finding it is bucket listed above the Greek Islands But below retirement. I don’t yet know if it is In your mirrored glasses Or In a puddle on potted asphalt But I sense its existence In my warm breath In this cold air And maybe there’s a mirror In a…
Read MoreA tanka to me
Crushed by massive waves That break as I stand naked And lit up with sun Warming up and slow baking My cheeks and arms and shoulders My body soft, heart bolder.
Read MoreA tanka to Melbourne
I can’t read your lips but your masked voice is soothing Busting the seams of My hands longing to touch you In privacy unveiling You laying there, me beaming.
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The Tree Hugger
The cadence of your limbs swaying Outstretched they reach the sky as I cling to you. Solidly, you sing to me pulsating: Roots pumping miracles – To quiesce me.
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