I wish I’d asked her. I wish I’d said to stay Here with me. It was no use pretending that I had no care for the choice being made. Where does time go? It’s used up Spent like the money she said she needed For this final brutal act. But I didn’t ask I handed […]

Look at you, You greedy things. Round and round in rings You swim. Can you see me? Observe me? Am I amazing From within your effervescent globe? Does the light catch my skin From within? Like the shards of colour From your fins. You seem so busy, In such a rush. Perhaps the shards are […]

She was crying “My sky’s leaked into my moon” she whimpered. I knelt, Tiny desk, acrylic paint “It’s ruined!” Her words describing my life On my knees By her paint pots. “That’s OK”, I rallied As mothers do. “Sometimes the sky does that” Silently I muse. I pointed to a rosy sunset, Capturing a family […]

On Pinterest I was presented with a photo of a belt buckle. You know the sort that a wealthy Texan ranch owner would surely wear; large, flamboyant and ornate. I had no idea why this image was tagged to arrive in my search and when it popped into view, along with other unheeded interruptions to […]

Standing on tip-toes, arms on the top of the stable door, chin resting on my hands, I would gaze at the thoroughbred within. On her stable door was a plaque announcing her real name as ‘Quintessence of Light’ but they all called her Quincy. She was the most beautiful, sensitive creature, gently pulling at the […]

Jonny leant over the edge of the bank as far as he dared. He was lying flat on his stomach in the thick mud, the rain falling heavier now. He could just make out the figure of Gilly in the driving rain, kneeling next to the stricken calf, half dead with exhaustion at the bottom […]

‘Its easier to stay warm than it is to get warm’ I heard that on the radio the other day and it got me thinking. It really does apply to me when I’m trudging across a muddy field to catch my horse, head-collar dangling from my shoulder as I blow on my hands to keep […]

I woke early to the noise of a magpie. It was a jarring, croaking cacophony and as it was only 6:30am on a day I did not work I felt aggrieved.Pulling open the curtains however, I saw that as this was early Spring, the World was very much awake. The sun was painting the scene with […]

I should just get on and eat my breakfast, I told myself. The shopping delivery had an hour slot when they should deliver by, but fifty-five minutes had passed. I paced about a bit, now slightly annoyed but mostly stressed at the fact that they were probably going to arrive late. What a spoilt brat […]

‘‘Are you a glass half full or a glass half empty sort of person?’’ They ask… It’s such an old but clever illustration of a positive or negative thinker. But, I also heard somewhere that the glass would be completely useless for this job, without the ‘nothing-ness’ of its core. It would become an ornament, […]