Tag Archives: Aspiration

Tree of Life

Oh Tree of Life! Haloed in white Dare I approach? Roots snake beneath the earth Encompassing the world All flows from and to you I would climb to your boughs Looking up and down Simultaneously As above, so below We … Continue reading

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Beauty Ritual

Sitting in the hairdresser’s chair mid process, my hair spiked by colouring agents Purple swathes against beige I look like I’ve been adorned for a tribal ritual Frankly it’s vaguely frightening And how the lights play on my visage making … Continue reading

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Fairy Tales Should Come With a Hazard Warning

I love a good story as much as the next person, and well I remember loving fairy tales (the scarier and bloodythirstier the better) as a child. My mother would read to my brother and I when we were young, … Continue reading

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A Big Thank You

When I first starting blogging about three weeks ago and began to find other blogs to follow I saw many posted thank yous at around this time of a blog’s life and I thought how lovely that was. What I … Continue reading

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Ode to Freddie Mercury

Watching a television documentary On my first favourite band I am reminded Stunned once more Before the artistry and poetry Of this mercurial man indeed The generosity they mention Was always in his glittering eyes But more the beauty of … Continue reading

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Losing My Religion

I once believed By being the change You wanted to see You could make it be I thought it would last The edifice built Through first being kind You’d not fall behind A small piece of faith A purpose of … Continue reading

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Time

All these days Crowd upon each other Disposable When was I supposed to rise And make this real? Is the truth More simple after all There’s nothing real but time? Passing undisturbed By all our efforts Turning a lazy eye … Continue reading

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For Beauty’s Sake

For beauty’s sake I take the brush And soft caress my face In shadowed contours may I hide The flaws I would replace Till gathered in conformity I vanish without trace? These colours of the fashion world Might jar against … Continue reading

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Winged Creatures

A gargoyle nestles on cathedral walls An Angel over-reaches before the Fall Out of its cocoon a butterfly crawls Winged creatures, all A hawk that evades the archer’s bow A dragon that stirs in the deep below An eagle that … Continue reading

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