Love
guttering, fluttering
on wings of fire
I fly
to love again, aspire
I envelop myself in words
In the dreams and visions they evoke
In the taste of them on my tongue
I tingle as they brush across my lips
Tremble as they form in my chest
A rumble larger than myself
While they wind a path through my mind
Illuminating this sensation, and that emotion
Recording all the world so that no moment must [...]
The supple vulnerability of love
The pen is mightier than the sword
While love is mightier than the pen
Love is
A fortress without walls
A sword without edge
A pen without ink
No army can defeat it
No blade cut it from you
No word undo it
Master the strength of suppleness;
Discover the safety in vulnerability:
Enable the sweetest experience of life,
The supple vulnerability of [...]
Helpless in our anger
Courage borne of anger
Delivers none from sorrow.
Anger begets violence
Upon body, mind and spirit.
Violence begets harm.
Harm begets sorrow.
On victim and
Instigator alike.
Ever so, this cycle of suffering,
Helpless in our anger.
What Sarah McLachlan sings about in Good Enough, with such an achingly sorrowful voice, is an all-too common story. We often learn as children to understand that we’re not good enough, that we should be happy with whatever expressions we can find that seem to express love. Perhaps we learn it through the emotional or [...]
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The transformative moment for any loss comes when we realise we’ve moved from grieving for what we no longer have to reliving the joy we experienced when we had it.
This is the bitter-sweet moment in the transformation from bitter to sweet.
And while tears will flow either side of this moment, their character is utterly changed [...]
Traces of Me
I fire arrows into the night
Never knowing if they strike their mark
Until the light of morning
When they cannot be found
Still, I do not know
Traces of me lay hidden
In the darkness that is you
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A few friends of mine and I were having a rough go of it. Love, work, friends and family — circumstances — all these and more seemed to be making every effort to diminish us.
The wisdom of loving brilliance
When your wisdom is lost on the fool,
Do not become one to ease his burden.
When your brilliance [...]
A note about these poems…
I don’t so much write poems as tease the words out of a notion. A poem may begin with a couplet or no more than a few words and partial lines, but I sense a fuller form and know this form’s intention is a poem. Often, I’ll churn the kernel [...]
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