Look up! Look up! and see the dull glimmer of stars as light travels steadily for millions of our earth years, to be swallowed up by the mirky polluted earth skies, finally the mystery of their lives is visible to our eyes. ——– Take time! Watch the golden, moon lit stratosphere, or the pounding waves… Continue reading Forest Bathing
Brexit’s Legacy
Startled by swiftness of the grievous downturn, he stood looking at his terraced house, once warm, once welcoming and in his hands were bulging bags, and his children playing their games on tech screens. Weary from work he held the bag from the Foodbank, and felt again the creaking of a body underfed and ——-… Continue reading Brexit’s Legacy
COP27! What is Truth?
Somewhere a contaminated trickle runs through an arid landscape, nearby are the bodies of the dying, graceful giraffes, or gilded lions, letting their last breath and their bodies die into the brutal dry earth as it turns to the dust of decisions and decide on coal over water. —— Somewhere a thirsty man frantically digs… Continue reading COP27! What is Truth?
Conspiracy to Harm
The coils of lies lie indifferently at the feet of the many who deny, they turn everyone’s tragedy into a fearsome, wild conspiracy, hunting paralysed, grieving victims of shocking, violent atrocities, hurting their pain with their own lazy brain that simply chooses. —– Sitting in a wheel chair a broken man sees his disabled daughter,… Continue reading Conspiracy to Harm
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She felt like a tree stripped of its leaves and someone was girdling the trunk. Her branches stretched out skeletal after the diet of journeying and fleeing, they rattled against the bones of her children and the struggling child inside, like nestlings hid in a trunk, as they chirp, quarrel and cry for mother’s food.… Continue reading Untitled
The Tory Diet
I’m on a Tory diet, counting out the beans, the smallest cheapest loaf, a slice for the weans, biscuits to crunch, fill the tummy. Now there’ll be no more, worst of fears, they’ve shut the Food Bank, Oh! my dears, they’ve served us for years, dried our tears. ——- I’m on a Tory diet. Caviar… Continue reading The Tory Diet
Enough!
Where in the foggy state of politics is the misty figure whose job is – to swarm over our crucial credibility? Each step of disastrous politics, each step of disastrous climate , each step of callous dealings increasing the pace of poverty, drives us further and distant from our path of democracy, the common good… Continue reading Enough!
Autumn
Dappled light, Autumn angled plays over my path, golden leaves litter the ground, crisp, crunching as I walk in the fading light, awed by nature’s bounteous praise of decaying foliage that has striven to provide the plethora of berries that call waxwings, thrushes, warblers and jays. Squirrels come for the nuts that litter the colour… Continue reading Autumn
Why Forgive?
I studied the news and the weather forecast and felt my heart hurt with the pain and loss, sought to make a prayer that thought of hope and found it hollow, echoing in a vacuum. —– I looked in the bible for words to help me and faltered over the words ‘love your enemy’, and… Continue reading Why Forgive?
Love is:
He takes my hand so lovingly, curling his fingers around mine, as if t’were a treasure of great price, and I hold his in mine while memories of that first fragile touch of nervousness. ==== Love can be worn thin like ice, a place that snaps easily and falling far through the fracture often floundering… Continue reading Love is: