Poised for full flight 
Staring at the ceiling
Longing out the window
At all the feathered friends
Feeding, freeing releasing

Sprawled in open field
Tracking left to right
Closing in aperture
At the microcosm
Teaming, hauling, receiving

Wandering round stone walls
Crumbling under time
Eroding memories
Cast iron releasing
Leaving, living, believing

In freedom

Those who've gone before

Stand
Create waves
Capture light
Make a way

For us to unfurl

Verses unending
Expanding
Universe

Verse unheard
Motherly
Musings

Verse unspoken
Bodily
Gestures

Verse unknown
Future
Making

Verse untamed
Wild
Daring

Verse unfinished
Given
Reclaiming

Verse uncoloured
Vivid
Painting

Show me the light
Illuminating
Sky
Clouds
Water
Sea
River
Window
Me

‘There’s a light in the darkness of everybody’s life’

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Each day
With or without you
Sunshine peeping
Through

Each afternoon
Sky as a kite
Music coursing
Through

Each night
Try as we might
Nothing left 
To do

Each morning
Another day facing
Many shades of
Blue

50th Anniversary of Joni Mitchell’s ‘Blue’ Album

Timeless beauty
Immortalised
In glorious white-wash
No blemish or stain
Forever longing
For life

'... that leaping stream
Where sweet aromas rose and trembled,
And sometimes a bird, wearing water and slowness, its winter feathers.'

'... those gifts from the earth:
Indelible scents, gold clay, weeds in the thicket and crazy roots,
Magical thorns like swords.'

'... the bouquet you picked,
Shadows and silent water,
Bouquet like a foam covered stone.'

'That time was like never and like always.
So we go there, where nothing is waiting; 
We find everything waiting there.'

PABLO NERUDA
Sonnet