(2013)
How are you? The maiden turned and whispered soft, her turquoise eyes as deep as time.
My beloved, she has abandoned me. What’s left is a stark white canva… that repels application of hue or… Hopelessly, I gaze into the bleak… She is gone,
I am that scruffy urchin trembling in the winter chill, with hungry eyes as wide as your fancy dinner plate, staring with an empty longing
Beloved goddess, sweet holy mother of us all, you who beckon me throughout these hectic days
It seems the only way to reach the mountain-top, is through the desert wasteland. It is only there that one might come to learn
God has spoken. I have been listening, the message is clear. The psalm itself is silent, if the psalmist’s voice falls stil…
I was seven years old. I approached the priest in earnest… “I want to take the lord Jesus in… He instructed me to kneel and pray… A week passed.
There’s a voice deep inside getting stronger every day. I cannot deny the message these urgent words proclaim. Why bother?
No words of wisdom. No clever rhymes. Not this day. Something heavy weighs me down.
Ideas and notions, they’re all for the dreamers, worth as much or less than one's considered opinion. You can’t even wrap fish in them.
I came to bless you with the mystery, and shine my light on you. I did not know you could not risk the light,
I come to the village well today, though without a need to drink. My worldly thirst now quenched, with home and hearth supplied. I am here to fill a deeper vessel
Listen. There it is. The hum of perfect silence at the centre of all that is, and isn’t.
I met a man who told me that he’s looking for the way he might become more free, less encumbered in his life. Poor me, poor me, poor me;
I’ve been so afraid to speak these heartfelt words. This secret has been kept so well, from myself, by myself,