Eating a dragon fruit,
with its pink scaly skin and its deep purple flesh,
not checking my phone, nor reading an article,
nor talking to another soul about this and that,
Tag Archives: Life lessons
Flag (Haiku)
The flag in the wind
never ceases to amaze
those that really see.
Quote – Marcus Aurelius
Vanity is the greatest seducer of reason…
A Mother’s Last Words
A Friend’s Mother’s Last Words: My good friend, Laura Skilbeck, kept a note of what her mother said during her final moments. Like many people who have read it, I felt the need to share it.
The Unburnt Bridge (A Poem)
The past melted his face.
He’s sitting next to the magazines,
with their perfect, blotch-free faces;
but theirs don’t tell a story
like his; (cont)
Buds of Trust (Poem)
The buds are pushing through
as if they don’t need to push at all;
they make it look effortless,
this business of growing
and becoming… continues
Octagon Man (A Poem)
A man sits in an octagon,
sleeves of red, grey chest,
contemplating life,
on this one day of rest…. continued
A Message from the Leaves (Haiku)
Red and yellow leaves
remind me of what’s to come.
Time to celebrate.
Naked (Haiku)
So many of us
keeping up appearances;
time to get naked.
The Blackbird Guilt (A Poem)
What did it feel it
to be pecked at
by a beak sharper than yours?
What did it feel like…cont
