A lonely being, standing at the crossroad, abandoned by your family and friends – the healthy, youthful lot who once stood by you, now long gone – used as firewood by humans, made into planks, tools, ornaments of unknown use […]
A Crooked Tree – II
I’ve wished that I was beautiful, spent years pining therefore – and wasted years on dreaming me into something I couldn’t be – just this I am; a crooked tree; the only beauty found in me sounds through my crooked […]
A City Seen From a Plane
An absurd, pulsing flower – a nerve-cell throbbing with life, pulses of light moving swiftly through the night in yellowish bursts as I observe here elevated in the skies – What could be beautiful is a parasite on the face […]
North Sea
Do you remember me, restless sea? Do you remember the girl you’d have swallowed if by some miracle unknown to me I hadn’t been saved as I in you wallowed. Do you remember the deed you near did and would […]
“You Can’t Drown”
There is a voice which calls to me: “You Can’t Drown” – water-borne I drift around within this sea, was I not too of water born? So much has moved beyond my reach as I seethe in this sea of […]
The Road Into the Wilderness
What do you know about the road into the wilderness – framed by the pines in silent lines of endless loneliness The road, the road which trails its track through miles of forest-land, without a destination, void of end, beginning […]
The Moon
The moon has placed itself within my grasp – I lean towards it over the side of my boat and dip my finger in it It beckons me: “Come; come closer”, talks to me through the ripples, mesmerizingly, and only […]
Oak
On a riverbank I sat resting my feet, my back against a steadfast reliable oak tree; if I could be as patient what might I not achieve? I’d grow into the heavens if I dared to believe. But those qualities […]
Fingers
Fingers stretch out everywhere to reach, to grab and tear – to drag life out of its hiding place, the withering flowers, the branches of the leafless trees – nature’s now-barren bowers with their beauty-spreading powers shielding emptiness – to […]
Liquify
liquify my eyes and melt me till I fuse into the vapour on the grass the dew is due sweet droplets as I sink into nature’s warming breast liquify my heart turn blood to water set me free and re-unite […]
Soft Breeze
I smell wet grass and mosses from your hair as you pass by my door, soft breeze who plays with the sun’s rays and dances on forevermore Restless, joyous in your movements, not constrained by worries like my world. On […]
Sunbeam
A ray of sunlight escapes the clouds illuminating everything in its path; the red, yellow, brown autumn foliage is set ablaze as the withering leaves sponge up, consume the heat – the foliage turns luminous, sending incendiary sparks with miraculous […]
Green, Gold
The grass alights with stripes of green and gold as sunlight filters through the trees, and light and shadow divides the ground beneath in asymmetric patterns – green, gold, green, gold – of stripes, triangles and an occasional circle, disappearing […]
waves
wave after wave come rushing in, in slowmotion I watch the stream of sunshine’s glittering gold reflected on their perky tops, erected over the following hills and dales streaming silently over the shoals until they finally reach their goals; murmuring […]
The Sun Is Floating in a Sea of Mist
The sun is floating in a sea of mist with two pale cloud-boats in its wake, and all the sky irradiates as it emits its golden light to mist and clouds alike Then sinking in the sea of its own […]
The Seashore’s Waves Break on the Sky
The seashore’s waves break on the sky, the smoking curls of foam I see in tones from white to rose, the band extend along the invisible sea The winds of evening toss about the bands, the light turns them to […]
Moist
landscape lost in a humid cloud of nebulous mist that moist descends upon us dispersing white mist, seesawing – what a sight to behold before us fog twirling around pale smokestacks, we are found within this world, swirling around droplets […]
Hanging on its Stalk
glistening petals, pearly skin as white and rosy as a memory of fairytales told to me long ago – but somehow they don’t seem to be the lasting objects of veneration that I have sought, (that I came here to […]
The Rise and the Fall
Out of the ocean rises it, transparent in its beauty, cocks head in joyful majesty and marvels at its power, then bends its neck when nearing land, in curiosity – consumes itself in foam and then collapses on the sand; […]
The Cornflower
Balancing on a steady stem the tender purple bluish threads which make up its small, fragile head raised to the hiding sun, its rosy eye gleams to the sky, that through June ever blinds its eye to those who seek […]