Dragon Fruit Surprise

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,

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