Prose Poetry

  • Drifting thoughts from the coffee shop’s balcony

    The road carries the hum of recent rain today. A populace quietly going about its business, rubber rolling on damp bitumen, a gentle tide washing in and out.

    A few days ago the sun was hot, stinging the skin. Today, passing snippets of conversation speak of the cold, whilst tucking hoods close on the backs of their necks. A liminal day. The present, the ‘now’, hanging loosely between past and future, hovering before ‘next’.

    Days like this, my identity shifts and slips with the weather. The self I have been is grieving. I cannot quite hear the self I will become. But the light drifting in and out from behind the clouds reminds me she is waiting.

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  • Benediction

    Have you ever noticed the stillness that gently calls when the world is just being?

    Not doing. Just being. Waiting for us to notice. 

    I notice it most in the shifting Summer, as afternoon slants towards dusk. The world is embraced in light. Kindling from within each tree, each home, and the passing breeze. A singing glow that remakes each line and shape and colour more true. More real. The radiant trees seem almost to burst in their perfect, vibrant stillness. The luminous faces of buildings speak of people who have grown and loved and lived within their walls.

    I love the world I live in. Those moments of stillness when I feel the world sing, hold my moments of silent thanks.

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