small delights
tiny steps

little efforts
full acceptance

a song
a silence

a day
a night

a breath
a sleep.

650 miles and two ferry journeys
I will not be making that trip again
-back to the town I was brought up
three years since the last time
eight years before that-
there is nothing there for me now
that is finally understood.
I made the 650 miles and two ferry journeys back
thank God.

anti bird strike stickers cast rainbows filled with Sun
Bees as well as birds no longer crash into the glass
-some had died, some were stunned laying helpless on the path
new windows brought death to the garden, it took awhile to work it out, it looked as though the garden went on forever, an illusion wrought by refigured new windows.

resorting to anything but love
is weakness, never a strength

cool balm breathes through
sunlight riding the breeze

I breathe in soft and slow
body and mind expanding

Sunlight running fast
reaches into my heart

I live with a stars blessing
breathing in the breeze

the Goldfinches love the Sunflower hearts by far their favourite choice of seed
The Rock Doves, males dance around the grass trying to impress the females, their coo cooing mating song they never tire of singing.
The Sparrows arrive a big family tribe, they are the first to bring chicks to the feeders hanging from the Sycamores.
Greenfinch and Chaffinch, Blackcaps and Starlings along with Hoodie Crows and Barn Owls, Golden Eagles and Sea Eagles, and of course Geese and Curlew, Oyster Catcher, Puffin and all the varying Seagulls.....all come for feed, all with their favourite tastes.

sweet finesse from heart fully realised
journey undertook and accomplished

to have reached another beginning
the jump off to eternity

happiness found in peacefulness
sunworshiping yellow tulips and daffodils

Spring come again slaking thirst
blue sky blue sea, the cries of seagulls.

a song rises
your throat

a heart gift
in words

a shared space
beyond time.

with your nakedness exposed
dreams having nightmares

your sad sorry self surrounded
your accusers showing no mercy

characters haunting your nights
following every each step of escape

-you finally wake
to your own blindness.

uncovering of guilt
can take some doing

my blindness
needing opening

a dream of the night
where strange drama unfolds

coming face to face
eye to eye

the pain I caused
in my weakness.

having joined the queue
at point of conception

the counting down began
getting ever closer to the ending

and what is this end
if not the beginning

it has always been
a journey into the unknowing.

many look to the heavens
hoping for a sign

its true the Sun will
sometimes hide

but can god really ride clouds
or be beyond our skies

yes God is way beyond our minds
-thats why Jesu

- makes God so accessible
a man like you and I.

songs along the way
and singers abound

the woe of the world
is not for the child

the child is free
from forever to ever

no mortal grist
can wound love.

deep in the heart of things
complete stillness reigns

peacefulness of perpetual love
undiluted presence

yes love is a fortress
undisturbed completeness

pulsating heart
veins aglow

life coursing
through stars

a moon in the night
sings of lovers

feet planted
creation bounty

green grass
between toes

a spiritual
naked dance.

walking within the steps of giants
a well trodden road

a narrow path opening out
into eternal thoughts

mere dust and ashes
but what bright stars.

encouragement nailed to your hands
a wiser man than I confirmed this path
put their poetic heart-seal into my skin
gave acknowledgement in their walk
more than just words or songs, songs.

clouded by doubt
- curl up and die

fleeting life
-thoughts even quicker

change comes always
- always hang in there

though storms rage
-clear skies will return

now and again
and again now

sometimes you sing
sometimes its best

to keep listening
keep guard on your lips

but remember lips
are also for kissing.

Humbled, yes, a child
-a way of being
led by the hand.

within times weave
deep hearts

a time again
and again

we touch
we two

become one
become for-ever

I talk to the seeds in their watered egg boxes
all lined up on windowsills
ask if any would like to be born
-give assurance,  'its all free!'

immersed in nature
the great healer
-
a mothers love
for a child of the universe

impetus in wild places
became stronger each visit

-in the end
I just had to surrender to it

seek out a fulltime experience
-and here I am by the grace of I AM.

gifted a very time limited concentration
or conversley a very large capacity to daydream

time worn skin
reminds to be gentle
-gentle with oneself
and gentle with all others
forgiveness is a battle
to find humanity
where you least expect it
-hearts conundrum.

when you live in solitude
life is crammed full
-full to the brim and running over

nature goes deep
deeper than solitude
deeper than imagination.

birds fly the nest
to sing from their own tree

when caught in an unending snare
the long wait is called for

suddenly you are free
your freedom writ in every line

you found your tree
and the snare is broken.

our nights we are plunged in spangled black
-no street lamps here to dim the stars

you have to be careful
beware getting lost out there

bewitched, spellbound
a great wanting to be consumed.

my car is red
grass lush green
the sky blue
sea blue too
I wear black
or grey
-mostly.

small island life
blue in every direction
where sky comes down
to share breakfast and tea
with sea
and ocean

yellow bobbing heads
a waving tree newly budding
all the winter of waiting
a sprung spring of hearts desiring

many a voice clamours for freedom
tying the tongue to song
-a tamed serpent

summer breathes across the ocean
a blue space full of mystery
- did we really crawl out her depths?
after a mix of stardust and salt met
in deep dark wet?

the wind blows warm
a first Butterfly delights
hopping along the wind
not a care in the world.

some song waits till evening
-to make itself known
the changing season
-the perception of light
a spirit transformed
-voices reborn
the flight of the mind
-songs of the heart.

art transforms from object to living streams
ocean of minds, universe of hearts
interconnected intertwined unison
-loves unity realised, the end goal.

toxins from toxic thoughts
those you really must reject
be on guard at the door
-before the toxin takes effect

catching a moment
in a jar

and its gone
before you see it

before you put the lid on
you are lost to a daydream.

a time of rest
- dappled light

trees are budding
- nests built

I can see for miles
- across the blue sea

eternity just the otherside
- of one last heartbeat.

comes close to paradise
for a short while
-all things are well
all manner of things

when stillness visits our Island
-bobbing gently in a calmed sea

wing beats can be heard
-travelling the air

along with spring songs
-calling out for love.

get up and go
-days for movement

a single thought
-for fuel

one psalm poem
-'The Lord is my Shepherd

time is friend and foe
memories haunt the present

- distance allows healing
understanding and forgiveness

but you may have to go through
seeming eternal remembrance

rearmed each time with
new found love.

openings in the fabric of silence
-a tongue loosened by love

an empty hermitage
is all thats left
at the end of the road
a silent space
where once poems were born
and a child of the Universe
-a child of God
sat watching.

slow to speak
and some days
-silence

small talk with God
who knows my heart
unfurls beauty

slow to speak
and some days
-silence

improvisation is the heart of my craft
a gift given before I was born

I do not know where words will go
but its my wand in a world of negation

Living a niche, an unusual stream,
I meet with lovers, singing our songs.

the nucleus in society
often dysfunctional

handing on prejudice
generational way of life

to be a break in the chain
requires radical medicine.