Steve’s just had it off with Beth’s sister.

Dodgy Dave finally broke his beer bottle record --

opened six with his mouth,

leaving his lips behind on the last one.

Debaucherous drinking stirred with a few unmentionable

mind-altering drugs thrown in.

Fractured relationships now totally dislocated, fuelled by four Jägermeister shots.

Bragging rights saved for the morning after.

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Ok I’m mostly melancholic but you can’t change me.

Was your happiness ever reliant on someone else changing?

You can’t change me cause you know nothing about my origins.

My traumas. My dreams.

Why do you try to manipulate my choices?

The more you make an effort to change me

the more defiant I get.

Because I think it is actually about you.

All I want is for you to create a s...

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I don’t care what university you went to and what you majored in.

I don’t care how much you paid for your house in the country.

I don’t care if you’re telling me the truth about being on the board at work,

how much you earn or the cars you drive.

All I want to know is what enlightens you from the inside when the world

 collapses around you.

I want to know if you can live with def...

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I was dead last month. Call it a burn out. Or galloping combustion.

I was living my life outside me.

You could be dead too. It doesn’t take a cardiac arrest or

a thousand carcinogenic rogue cells to consume you.

To be dead is to live a life where somebody’s got you on auto.

Your choices have been impounded.

You’re dead because you’re wallowing in the fear of failure.

If you wa...

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Paint me a purple river

I want to hear blue trees sing to me,

Green skies smile.

Write me a rhyme without reason.

Left and right merging into one. Germinating.  Creating.

Dance for me without form or function. Just dance.

As a child you thought outside the lines.

Reckless, naked, fearless.

Take me back to you Kingdom of Childhood.

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You spoke of your restless soul, seeking transformation.

I said move it, move it. Words falling on skeptical ears.

Shift you thoughts of fear

to thoughts of love.

Pour forth forgiveness and gratitude into the fertile

and powerful energy field around you.

Then like a magical magnet watch it attract love,

spiralling into your deepest core.

Which on their return journey manife...

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Here I am entering a space between episodes

where everything seems so real, so right.

So unfeigned that I begin to doubt my sanity.

But as I travel within that space inside me

I see more regressive versions

of new episodes.

They peak and ebb,

sucking me into a vortex of frustration.

Then suddenly a new story emerges.

Suddenly I’m engulfed with a flood of people.

They ...

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Confusion morphs into clarity

Chaos into harmony

Suspicion into naked trust.

The floodgatesof Gratitude has burst open

 awakening the sleeping energy within us.

Let gratitude take us to a higher ground.

A higher purpose.

Let’s start at the source. That sacred place within each of us.

Can I touch yours?

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I can’t listen to your anger, I can only feel it.

What you want to say to me is not what you’re saying.

Why does your message get lost when you’re bellicose?

What do you really want to say?

You don’t need my sanction to articulate your truth.

Can’t you see that there’s no delete button once your arrows have left your bow?

Look, now you’ve gone the other way.

And talk too much ...

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The Calling

I want to be a pilot. A train driver. A scientist.  A footballer.

Pressure, pressure, pressure. From parents, teachers, aunts.

Why is “what I want to be when I grow up” so effin important to you?

Why do you twist my little arm for an answer now?

That hurts.

Why do you pull a face when my response doesn’t match

your twisted vision of success?

I’m only 7 years old...

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Loving me

Do you remember the last time you loved you?

Pause.

Invite your emotions to join in.

Bring out the uncompromising truth.

And when it all spills out you’ll see that what the others are willing

to give you

is not always what you craved for.

It’s not what you look like to you but what you look like to them.

Harsh realities emerge. Enlightening.

Challenging.

...

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HERE, CAN YOU PASS THIS GRATITUDE ROUND PLEASE

Thanksgiving’s gone. Christmas is upon us.

Decorate your tree with baubles of gratitude.

Mince pies stuffed with thanks.

Appreciation scribbled prominently on greeting cards.

Tis the season to be grateful. Sing it loud.

Make it your seasonal mantra. The # 1 Hit Single.

Be happy to be alive. Send thank you notes.

Thank you postm...

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The artist of happiness

Take me to the gallery where the only artist is you,

the creator, the inventor.

Teach me the Art of Happiness.

This gallery is different. The canvases are all empty.

It’s waiting for you to paint your emotions. Your picture of pleasure.

Exhilaration. Bliss. Contentment.

Strokes of purpose. Colours of passions. Forms of gratitude.

Dimensions never see...

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Starve a fear.

Eavesdropping on the festive table behind me

a daughter wrestles

with her Dad’s archaic ideologies.

“You’re interested but not committed Dad.

Interested in change,

Interested in writing,

Interested in exercising,

interested in a new relationship.

But you just keep talking.”

It goes for you too. Look at yourself in the mirror. You as well right?

Scrat...

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A child is born to us. In war-torn Syria.

Tiny, quivering Ahmed enters our world.

Hark the herald guns and mortar,

Glory to the dictator.

What no angels singing?

Joy to the world. Yeah right!

Ahmed’s only shelter is his mother’s trembling arms. She fights for survival every day.

Living a life of fear.

Storming heaven every night for the courage and power of the divine to pe...

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Tick, Tock

Oscillating between periods of pain and pleasure

I live a life of cacophonous contrasts

Never a pause

Never a moment for a reflective breath

And then a cruel and abrupt seizure

Life lies still

Like a clock that you only notice

when it stops ticking.

Goodbye my beloveds.

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Just Be. Here. Now.

Looking into the distance through my smoke rings  it occurred to me:

“It’s time we changed the way we change”.

Because the truth is, the only thing that’s permanent is change.

Doors open. And close.

People enter and leave.

Some move on and never come back.

Relationships forge.

Then expire.

Pictures fade. Memories don’t.

A new idea is born. A new fr...

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Who are you?

Who am I?

Separate but one.

All connected.

One universal tribe. Intertwined. Connected

Sharing pain.

Sharing abundance.

You are never alone.You are deeply bonded with everyone.

What the other is giving us only opens up the possibility

of going beyond the separate self.

I am You.

You are Me.

Our place is here in the universal oneness of which we are ...

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