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Courage Is Yours
We are creatures of habit us humans
Staying safe there in our comfort zones
Naturally, there will be exceptions
To this unwritten rule
Going off the roadmap most of us follow
Gung-ho types charging forth into life
Into any new situation full of bravado
Fearlessly shaking the tree of wisdom
Extracting every last gram of excitement
From this adventure we all signed up...
Monday 21st December 2020 7:25 am
Heart Chakra
Chakra cleansed heart
Negativity now depart
In beauty walking
Inner voice talking
Interconnected soul
At once whole
Ways of living
Caring easily giving
Gentle words spoken
Three eyes open
Easily to fathom
Harmony energy atom
Through each action
In every reaction
Peacefully deeply blessed
Love made manifest
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Friday 18th December 2020 8:18 am
The melodic grass
This music,
it makes me want to fall from the water
float in the sky,
stare at those lips
and kiss those green eyes,
drink from the clouds
and jump on the pond
to feel the stars
and gaze at the stones,
the rythms , the notes
melt my mind
ignite my visible voice
I'm not here nor there
maybe inside a void
floating on the blues
maybe its a d...
Monday 14th December 2020 8:23 pm
Echoes of Tech
Imagine creating this hand-held device
available for all to enjoy.
Pacifying vast swathes of the population.
The people would voluntarily spend most of their time investing their attention on this device to the detriment of observing the reality of genuine life going on around them.
Regardless of this being direct interaction with fellow humans.
Changes in their rights as citizens.
...Monday 14th December 2020 3:06 pm
Grandeur
Living beneath the wind,
How easy it is not to reach for the stars.
But sleeping beneath the moon,
How can we not yearn?
Touched by infinity,
Where do we place the next step?
Conscious of eternity,
We must ever go on.
In all of this grandeur, I should feel so small.
Soaking it into every pore,
I wonder.
In all this variety, I must seem so dull.
Watching the intricacy,
I learn.
Tuesday 8th December 2020 10:25 am
Kiss Me Quick - Tangerine Dream
Standing next to the library a gallery of art
Nourishing the soul, culture they impart
Paintings, sound, all arts it embraces
Taking us to many far away places
Streets a mix of Victorian architectural hints
Mixing harmoniously with all the glitz and chintz
What should be a total clash somehow blends in its uniqueness
Becoming quite sublime to the senses in its completenes...
Friday 4th December 2020 9:16 am
Once They're Gone
Irresistible the two-hundred-year-old mills
I would love to collect them in all honesty
Like Clough William-Ellis made Portmeirion
I would have my own industrial history village
Silk, cotton and any other mill is welcome
I would rescue neglected gems of architecture
The derelict, unloved, soon to be demolished
I would restore them to their former glory
This was our ancestor...
Wednesday 2nd December 2020 11:11 am
Stanley
Blue plaque sits upon wall
Arthur Stanley Jefferson it proclaims
Born 16th June 1890
Telling of where his journey started
A walking manifestation of talent
Known to the world as Stan Laurel
Comedy legend
Here his story began
His family soon moving away
As he would later relocate to another continent
A partnership with Ollie only half the story
Movie director, scree...
Monday 30th November 2020 8:10 am
Imitating Nature
Give me grace as a tree…
Give me power as the leaf…
And the friendship of the grass
If I fall.
I wouldn’t mind if I
Had the freedom of the sky,
And the warmth of the sunlight
On the earth.
Give me a song as the sea…
Play me music like the breeze…
And the comfort of the silence
Of the night.
I will not mind at all.
I will be one part of it all.
And rejoice at the splendour
Of the ...
Friday 27th November 2020 4:18 pm
The Old Straight Track
The greenest valley spread far and wide
Slowly settlement starts on either side
Bronze age people, eventually two villages grew
Looking from a distance at one another, what next to do?
Great plans are conceived, as elders confer to discuss
To be better able to trade, a track we’ll make between us
The Dodman by description, early surveyor of the land
Making sure the track was s...
Friday 27th November 2020 7:56 am
To Be Alone - Grizedale
The story is the same
It’s always the same
The need takes me, and I must act
Overwhelming need to escape
Escape from wall to wall people
Desiring a different experience
Hear my heartbeat
Truly breathe clean air
Solitude where are you?
Compulsion to be truly alone
Wanting ways to seek
Seek and we will find
One cold December day finds me in Grizedale Forest
...Tuesday 24th November 2020 2:42 pm
Stoney Clouds
Thank God, or St Giles anyway,
For Stoney Clouds.
You could be anywhere in the: Peaks, the counties, the Dales or the moors.
Jays give sudden alarm in coppice charms,
As people arrive, who should be indoors,
Locked down from our friends and family,
But luckily not the green of Stoney.
Stoney, an apt name for stoner youth,
Pot-plastered at the bench,
On the summ...
Sunday 22nd November 2020 3:25 pm
Stoneproof in Avebury
“Why I’m not feeling the energy, man?”
Hmmm this has to be a mystery
How does mysterious Avebury
Somehow mysteriously elude me…
Oh how I endeavoured to do the right thing
Even camped but a stones throw from the village
Walk the avenue of standing stones
Ensure I’m within the right energy
Continue around the circle of standing stones
Seemingly it doesn’t matter
Clock ...
Saturday 21st November 2020 8:53 am
Castlerigg Stone Circle
A circle made of thirty-eight volcanic stones
Like monumental cards that have been thrown
By some giant dealing out his giant deck
The Cumbrian landscape to bedeck
To sit within the circle, reaching to the past
Those Neolithic builders, a legacy to last
Castlerigg as the sun rises in the sky
The reason it was built, still to wonder why?
Warm sun drying the stones ...
Friday 20th November 2020 7:32 am
Druid’s Temple - Inspired by the Birkrigg Stone Circle near Ulverston
Connection to nature
Living by the seasons
Four thousand years
Finding rhyme and reason
Revering the old ways
Stones of the circle
Down through eons
Journey internal
Dare to care
Feel them today
Druids calling us
Energy stays
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Wednesday 18th November 2020 9:05 am
The River & The Sea
A canoe launches into shallowest water
All but a stream
High in the mountains
Forward motion begins
Avoiding rocks
Patiently progress is made
Slowly yet surely
Widening and then
In an instant transformed
A cacophony of noise fills his ears
Rapids!
With long-won skill, he traverses
Shooting onwards
Summersaulting
Yet in control
Then calm returns
First...
Monday 16th November 2020 12:17 pm
Be Beautiful...
It's all around if we open our eyes to see
Today I saw a gorgeous tree
Growing out of an old crumbling wall
There lies beauty
It's everywhere around
And it costs nothing
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Friday 13th November 2020 1:38 pm
Farming Through Time
He remembers his great grandfather
Wisdom etched in all the lines creasing his face
He said
“we don’t own this land, we look after it for our sons and the sons of our sons”
And this is how history unfolded
Down through countless generations
His own father before him
Grandad
Right back
The farm
Cared for
Nurtured
By those with the same surname
Passed down once...
Monday 9th November 2020 7:58 am
Oneness
Please help open my mind
Rationality limits potential
Quieten pointless ponderings
Let my mind be free
A thousand random thoughts vie for attention
Only the chatter of mundaneness
Never did mean anything
Time for a new paradigm
Overdue awakening within
Intuition then inner knowing
To be still from inside out
To listen to nothing
Calmness permeates
At last…
w...
Saturday 7th November 2020 8:12 am
City Life - Follow Your Bliss
His friends thought what a pity
Abandoning his job in the city
They judged him to be quite mad
Early mid-life crisis, how sad
Next, he distributed some of his wealth
Considered it essential for good health
Trinkets of a life he had turned away from
And pretty soon he will also be long gone
A Scottish island to be his new home
Clean air, wildness, freedom to roam
He wi...
Wednesday 4th November 2020 9:08 am
A Gift For You
Some people say that they cannot use the power of their mind
they say it is impossible to vision anything
Nothing to inspire them, nothing deep inside for them to seek
nothing to make their heart and soul sing
Think of a beautiful tropical island looking like paradise on Earth
palm trees gently swaying in the sea breeze
The healing warmth of the sun as it kisses lightly upon your...
Monday 2nd November 2020 7:25 am
The Water Diviners
Treading the fields with his hazel twig
Showing farmers exactly where to dig
Parched crops wilting as far as eyes can see
Water hidden, over there, by the old yew tree
The water diviner struck liquid gold once again
A well sunk, the crops lifeblood soon to regain
Year after year, the farmer’s gratitude enough
Brian the village legend always did his stuff
Is water divin...
Tuesday 27th October 2020 9:04 am
A Healing For Gaia
Arbor Low Stone Circle a new day is dawning
Transcendent sunrise welcomes in the morning
Sunshine warming us and the dew laden ground
At one with nature we are chanting sacred sound
Resonating with the landscape, the stones, at last
Through our ancestor’s legacy reaching into the past
Vibrations of aeons locked within the circular aspect
There is wisdom here for those affordin...
Saturday 24th October 2020 8:19 am
Magic Gems
Rock Crystal of purest energy
Smoky Quartz creating good chi
Amethyst powerful healer
Apache Tear karmic revealer
Rose Quartz the love stone
Carnelian “in the zone”
Tigereye Gold attracts wealth
Malachite the aid to health
Amazonite for lucky days
Sunstone sunshine rays
Bloodstone the blood tonic
Snowflake Obsidian life harmonic
Moonstone sweet dreams
Black O...
Friday 23rd October 2020 11:22 am
Acting Upon a Dream
A vision of another time
Feeling the landscape
Reaching into the past
Mineral rich
Quarry his location
Seeking
Seeking to communicate
Follow his intuition
Off the well walked track
Reading the ground
With closed eyes, he sees
And walks with purpose
Yes, it is just as he saw
Yes!
Hidden under long grass
This hollowed out depression
He drops to th...
Thursday 22nd October 2020 12:22 pm
The Shaman In The Park
He walks as he chants, feeling the grass beneath his feet
Smiling inwardly, he knows who he came here to meet
Sacred sounds reverberate, into air and within the ground
Soon it happens, by him they swoop, begin to fly around
Warmer weather is here, swallows confirming this
As by fractions of a centimetre our shaman they miss
Feeling his energy, chanting he continues, projecting lo...
Wednesday 21st October 2020 12:05 pm
Overwinter Under Wing
To long for the tall and rounded neck
Of the swan overwintering.
To wind it round all snug and warm,
Tucked and sheltered under wing.
To see me through to daffodils,
When the long nights up and scarper.
But first the wind will undress trees
And its bite will get much sharper
For now the song has dimmed to still
And the sun just won’t stay put.
The air is g...
Sunday 18th October 2020 6:18 pm
Petrichor
Instead of inhaling
doom and gloom,
let’s take a walk
in the woods,
play hide and seek
among willow trees,
Feel the sun rejuvenate our soul,
Become one with dirt and rain,
bathe in the healing fluid from mother nature’s veins,
petrichor,
just what the doctor ordered.
Monday 12th October 2020 1:27 am
Turning Back Time In Margate
A journey to the settings of his art
Essence of his inspiration to impart
Travelling as our schedule can accommodate
Emotionally travelling back in time to appreciate
Would the man himself recognise the views?
If he perhaps stood here now, wearing our shoes
Genius of two centuries past, legacy living on
The prize named after him, this artistic paragon
Wandering and wonderin...
Thursday 8th October 2020 4:38 pm
Spider
eight limbs lower so small and afraid,
a two limbed child chases your dance,
dragging their feet and fate to you,
but your step to a web is slow,
to small to catch the beat of their murder,
might they show mercy and turn it down?
for you to dance in silence.
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Monday 28th September 2020 11:57 am
My Martello
Incredible views standing looking out to sea
Always though what a great home it might be
No1 and 2 both residentially converted long ago
No3 invitingly waiting for me to give it a go
Round Buildings work for me in an appealing way
Windmills, lighthouses, and it will happen some day
A Martello Tower in Folkestone all of my own
Who could possibly want any other kind of home?
...
Wednesday 23rd September 2020 2:50 pm
How free are we?
How free, flows the raging river
How free, float the clouds
How free, sways the luscious grass
How free, stand trees so proud
How free, swirls the playful wind
How free, tides ebb and flow
How free, the sunlight bathes the earth
How free, wild flowers grow
How free, the stars prick night with gold
How free, the moon that shimmers
How free, roam creatures of ...
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 12:25 pm
The Boots
Walking boots are donned early morn
Into nature witness the rising dawn
Spring Solstice what could inspire more?
Forgotten stone circle upon empty moor
Coolness felt upon my essentially bare feet
Eyes closed, sense sunrise, harmony complete
Warming rays invigorating body and soul
Oneness with all elements at once whole
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Friday 18th September 2020 2:53 pm
Turning Back Time In Margate
A journey to the settings of his art
Essence of his inspiration to impart
Travelling as our schedule can accommodate
Emotionally travelling back in time to appreciate
Would the man himself recognise the views?
If he perhaps stood here now, wearing our shoes
Genius of two centuries past, legacy living on
The prize named after him, this artistic paragon
Wandering and wonderin...
Thursday 10th September 2020 1:24 pm
Exercising Mind, Body And Soul
Beeston Castle is a ruin now
Once proudly standing atop its hill
Now a pay to view tourist attraction
Still appealing nonetheless
Our past facsimiled into stone
The lives of ancestors
Tuning in, as ascent is made
Walking and feeling
Hours spent communing
And then a picnic
Overlooking rolling Cheshire countryside
Carrots are munched
Hummus enjoyed
And the...
Wednesday 9th September 2020 2:39 pm
The Dancers Of Life
Sticks clash together as the bells ring
Heralding Centuries old rites of spring
Morris Men dancing in each season
Each well-rehearsed step for a reason
The fiddle player keeping with tradition
Lending the dance for all his rhythm
Denizen of all things beauteous and green
The village has chosen The May Queen
Morris Men dancing good harvest to bring
Then the fool is crowne...
Tuesday 1st September 2020 2:04 pm
Totally Fitness
The temple of the body beautiful, with a strain and tremble
Music pumping, yet not really noticed
As bodies are pumping, to be noticed
Machines activated by human power
Working up a sweat “just another hour”
Seeking to become just a little more physically decked
Body mass index and calorie counting minutely checked
Gaining bulging muscles or loosing bulges they want to shed
...Thursday 27th August 2020 3:48 pm
Building a fire
There's 2 sticks
Give it A lot of friction
A slow building tension
Allow it some time It'll start, don't whine
See the little embers?
all of the smoke?
Take a step back so you don't choke.
Give it room to breathe
Just watch, you'll see.
See, there's a little flame
all you need is a little time and patience
You wouldn't want all that effort to be wasted.
...
Tuesday 25th August 2020 2:59 am
Love the Nature
Ujjal Mandal, India
Love the Nature, I swear she must fall in love with you.
Monday 17th August 2020 2:52 am
Summer Rain
To walk in the cleansing summer rain
Nirvana for humans and parched ground
Pine trees, roses, the damp earth
And a thousand other scents
All at once brought alive
Teasing senses with their beauty
Thoroughly soaking wet and caring not
Simple joys of being alive…
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Friday 7th August 2020 9:39 am
The Smatterbog
The smatterbog was tepid
Its fluesence slowly heaving
With every gentle billowing
Of the lively tensile surface
a fragrant wind was passed
making stealthy breezes
titillate leaves of dew
That shed their droplet treasures
into the mouths of steaming crocs
as iridescent dragonflies danced
amongst the reeds
along the bogsome banks.
‘Twas then the spotted hoary...
Saturday 1st August 2020 11:56 am
Sunflowers and Old Boots
I recently stumbled upon a website which had the letters written by Vincent Van Gogh to his brother, family and friends. Completely absorbed I was lost to research for hours on end, compelled to learn more of this painters fascinating life story. Here is the resulting “found” poem which uses lines written by Van Gogh himself to describe his experiences, collated in a way which hopefully does justi...
Thursday 30th July 2020 5:39 pm
Inspiration In A Rose
Inspiration…where to seek pure inspiration?
That innermost creative beauteous elation
Living the urban life and wondering how
Is inner connection possible here and now?
Walking these city streets looking around
It’s alive in the buildings, people and sound
Yet here is nature, she never quite goes
Find yourself a park and go smell a rose
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Wednesday 29th July 2020 12:10 pm
Forest Bathing
Back against bark
Legs touching roots
Sat in near dark
Searching out truths
Outstretching arms
Reaching for branches
Ebb and flow hours
Turn into trances
Leaves fall in my hair
Like chances long missed
Splinters of wood
Scratch at my wrists
Bird song so sweet
Echoes my ears
Wisdom of tree
Far greater than fear
Saturday 25th July 2020 1:47 pm
THE LEAVES
The leaves of the tree
Behind the house of glass are falling
With each step of the wind
They liberate themselves from the branches
From the complexity of the connections
Connection of the root with the trunk
Of the trunk with the branches
Of the branches with the leaves
The leaves liberated themselves
From the connections
From the dependence
The leaves of the ...
Friday 24th July 2020 7:18 am
Sunsets Are For Walking Into
I always took the sky for granted
Never really cared about the stars
Stuck strictly to the daily round,
Women and booze and fast cars
Sunsets are for walking into with you
At last I see the magic in the sky
Sunsets are for walking into with you
How did sunsets ever escape my eye?
You taught me about love and nature
How they go hand in hand together
Giving lo...
Saturday 18th July 2020 11:30 am
Today in this 21st Century
Today I pull up the drawbridge
My domain
My castle
None may enter
Today I go to the mountain
My niche
My cave
None may find me
Today I commune with nature
My forest
My seashore
None may follow
Today I bid adieu for a while
My freedom
My retreat
None may know
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Tuesday 14th July 2020 4:16 pm
Questioning
It took me a while
Yet there is not a clock ticking here
Looking outwards I observed life
Pondering inwardly
When the student is ready
I know the answer now
Oh finally, the truth is revealed
The great unanswered mystery
A “How to” manual to life
Well, it is all about questions
Every time we think
We ask ourselves questions
Even opting out of making de...
Monday 13th July 2020 10:39 am
Observed On My Travels
There it sits nailed to its tree
So long after the event…so long
A statement of intent to make
And yet the message was lost to me
Sadly, lost within their ignorance
Here we have a living thing
It has lived longer than you or I
Vital for our survival…essential
Wounded, yet still very much alive this tree
And how one rusty nail speaks volumes
As it holds it’s now faded ...
Saturday 4th July 2020 7:45 am
Solitude Where Are You?
The story is the same
It’s always the same
Escape from wall to wall people
Festivities, trivialities
Desiring a different experience
Hear my heart beat
Truly breathe
Solitude where are you?
For once to be truly alone
Ways to seek
Seek and you will find
New Year’s Day finds me in a forest
Far from the moderate crowd
Rain lashes down and I care not
The ...
Monday 29th June 2020 6:38 am
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