You see
it wasn’t like I
couldn’t breathe,
and it wasn’t like I had been
holding my breath.
I was a statue,
waiting when you walked by
and you were a tornado
tearing your way through me.
It was like
suddenly
in that fleeting moment,
life happened.
fold my heart in half
veins map an untraveled path
origami life
hollowed and reformed
now I can’t tell you from me
who’s in the mirror?
I got the idea for this haiku from the awesome and always inspiring Rising Hawk. Each word has to begin with the next letter of the alphabet.
Anchored beginnings,
changes dawn effortlessly.
Fixing guarded hearts.
The person who wrote this line
is different
from the person who wrote this line.
Will I ever know myself?
Compression in chest,
hold heart in hands. Tenderly
infuse potential.
complacency garners undue attention
often leaves spirits waning
heard shadows last night
the unwelcome visitor
tasteless in my heart
deaf to my eyes
risen from a poignant grave
has
yet to disappear
it roars in my ears
hollowed out by ungrateful sentiments
given rise by prolonged hibernation
through a muted winter
somewhere through mischievous cracks
summer is breaking down concrete walls
skipping over spring altogether
greedy in its ambitions to thwart
to consume until it has dominion
no more me-
only it
a serpent famished, starved
hungry for its next meal
slithering over organs
taking them hostage
coiling through blood
white cells crushed like feathers
beneath smouldering boulders
I am washed over in its image
powerless against its frightening ardor
shaking, I will carry out its desire
I sit here- a once benign spark
atop a tank of eager gasoline
waiting impatiently for ignition
Anyone got a light?
Liam and I had possession of our house last week, yet somehow we have still not moved in due to being the slowest, laziest packers on the planet. Actually he’s been very good, it’s really just me. I’ve never moved before, so I’m only just discovering the pain that is packing your life away into boxes.
I’m trying to downsize as much as possible so I don’t have immense piles of crap cluttering up my new house… crap that I’ve dragged around since childhood. I’ve been mentally preparing for it for a few months, so some things are easy to get rid of.. others not so much. In any case it’s been more time consuming than I thought, especially since I have the attention span of a nat. This is the method that I’ve been using to pack:
1. Get box and go to room to be packed
2. Place one item into box
3. Take a break
4. Look at box
5. Have a coffee
6. Look at more items
7. Get really tired
8. Take a nap
9. Repeat next day
Can you see my predicament? At this rate it’ll be winter again before I’m in the house.
forget everything
embrace ecstasy and then
stumble home happy
Some call it red 