Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Mindfulness

Glaring reflections off the laminated posters

Talcum like grey sprinkles of dust on the warm wooden table

Slightly shabby and well-loved black patent leather shoes

A neat pile of notepad, black pen and pink glasses case

Gentle twinkling blue eyes in a soft round face

The droning hum of the air conditioner

Fidgeting bodies

Creaking chairs

The murmur of a car somewhere outside

A child’s excited voice telling a story

My breath

The knot of anxiety in my chest

The firmness of the chair against the back of my body

Shoes cradling my feet

The cool air as I breathe in

My hands resting in my lap

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

A Conversation


I enter our conversation tentatively

Listening and trying so hard to understand.

And then I realise I am lost in your words,

As if in a maze,

I have lost my sense of direction in your half-formed thoughts and sentences.

Ideas and suggestions and maybes and shoulds and what-ifs swirl around me

As if in a fog, I am confused,

And now...

I have lost my own words.

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Shyness binding my heart and my words,
Tightening,
Squeezing,
Numbing.
Turning away, looking down and back
A tear gently escapes.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Scotch Thistle on the Southern Yarrowee Trail

Yearning to survive
You rip and smother...
A cruel invader
So far from home.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

For Will

I watch ...
the intricate, delicate patterns of you,
the myriad, sparkling facets
of insights and gentleness.
Watching, observing, thinking ...
saying the words that I am only feeling ...
And I love you.

Sunday, October 17, 2010

My Words

My Words

The words are

Choked and gagged with a fear

That paralyses and grasps and sniggers,

Fist-like.

A crowd of rushing words

Stumbling pushing shoving cramping

Jammed into a bottleneck where

Nothing can move forwards or backwards ... Stuck.

Just one has to shift and shuffle sideways, to wriggle out

To squeeze through, to escape

And to then lead the others out, slowly, one by one to

A deep breath of the future and all its possibilities.