Behind my eyelids
I see the trees
Reds, purples
Sometimes
It is just colours
Other times
I see shapes
A green sphere
Atop a silver grey
Straight, plain, triangular
A thin tall triangle
Turning
To burnt orange
Or golden brown
I meditated tonight
Whilst next door
The clowns performed
We had been invited
But the message
Did not get through soon enough
More’s the pity
Most days I would try to write a poem; it is a practice, as I suppose is meditation, or smiling, or watching the world go by
Monday, 15 April 2019
Sunday, 14 April 2019
Sixty Five
I told the story
Of my first visit to this place
You know, the underlying reason
I took the blame
Said you had done the right thing
You deserved a life
I did not use your name
But said that without a life
Things must change
I mentioned the young woman
A punk dresser
About to join a closed order
She told me
Vociferously
That I must be creative
I don’t know that this time I helped
Other than that by talking
I might have encouraged others
Those with indelibly raw stories
Still with hurt, still with pain
Seeking some port in which to dock
My recovery began here
And though I was fearful of returning
Sometimes it is good to go back
Of my first visit to this place
You know, the underlying reason
I took the blame
Said you had done the right thing
You deserved a life
I did not use your name
But said that without a life
Things must change
I mentioned the young woman
A punk dresser
About to join a closed order
She told me
Vociferously
That I must be creative
I don’t know that this time I helped
Other than that by talking
I might have encouraged others
Those with indelibly raw stories
Still with hurt, still with pain
Seeking some port in which to dock
My recovery began here
And though I was fearful of returning
Sometimes it is good to go back
Saturday, 13 April 2019
Sixty Four
I have many traces of memories
Yet also I find new places
This afternoon I sit on a white chair
Under the apple tree
Behind me, a little way away
There are the beehives
I can hear the bees
I can see a butterfly
I can touch the peeling bark
On the trunk of the tree
Today there are no cobwebs
No silences in the corners
There is dust, as always
Though this is the dust
Of a dry dry summer
There are marker posts
With warning tapes
Highlighting a space
Which I ought not to enter
I will not go there
For I no longer wish to trespass
Now I only want to go
I only want to go where I am wanted
I only want to go where I am loved
Yet also I find new places
This afternoon I sit on a white chair
Under the apple tree
Behind me, a little way away
There are the beehives
I can hear the bees
I can see a butterfly
I can touch the peeling bark
On the trunk of the tree
Today there are no cobwebs
No silences in the corners
There is dust, as always
Though this is the dust
Of a dry dry summer
There are marker posts
With warning tapes
Highlighting a space
Which I ought not to enter
I will not go there
For I no longer wish to trespass
Now I only want to go
I only want to go where I am wanted
I only want to go where I am loved
Friday, 12 April 2019
Sixty Three
Mindfulness does not necessarily
Mean slow
Indeed I myself much prefer
The pacy, racy, laced up way of carrying on
A bit like that time of dusk
Being shown the evening primroses open
Or around dawn
Witnessing the last bedroom door close
Or here, in the common room
Where I watch over the comings, the goings
The tall young woman
With a most expressive walker’s bottom
The new recruit with large leather bag
Who takes diminutive steps
With just those few words
I feel a comedy routine rushing in
Lots, yes, lots of double entendres
Amplified by relentless repetitions
Even perhaps a smidge of misunderstanding
For our overseas guests
Mean slow
Indeed I myself much prefer
The pacy, racy, laced up way of carrying on
A bit like that time of dusk
Being shown the evening primroses open
Or around dawn
Witnessing the last bedroom door close
Or here, in the common room
Where I watch over the comings, the goings
The tall young woman
With a most expressive walker’s bottom
The new recruit with large leather bag
Who takes diminutive steps
With just those few words
I feel a comedy routine rushing in
Lots, yes, lots of double entendres
Amplified by relentless repetitions
Even perhaps a smidge of misunderstanding
For our overseas guests
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Sixty Two
Maybe there is no sitting
Or perhaps
The location has been changed
Without my knowing
Either way I will sit
I always have that within me
No need to search out others
Nor to feel discarded
But first
A few words to be written
On the beauty
Of the whole process
I came outside
Into this garden
To write of all
That I could feel
Or sense
Or touch
I did not expect
To hear your whistle
But then again
Occasionally
My expectations
Are not so high
Or perhaps
The location has been changed
Without my knowing
Either way I will sit
I always have that within me
No need to search out others
Nor to feel discarded
But first
A few words to be written
On the beauty
Of the whole process
I came outside
Into this garden
To write of all
That I could feel
Or sense
Or touch
I did not expect
To hear your whistle
But then again
Occasionally
My expectations
Are not so high
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