20 October



we dig deep holes in gravel

put up fences

and build our walls up brick by brick

it's a balancing act they tell us

as if we could have noticed everything
as if we could have prepared for tentacles
that climbed our fortresses
and left our eyes and mouths
staring into vacancy

in the end we are nothing 
time cheats us all
and trashes everything







Comments

  1. Victoria20 October 2013 at 20:04

    Wonderful, economic use of the Wordle. Great message as well.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sherry Blue Sky20 October 2013 at 21:27

    Wowzers, you took those words and look what you made of them! Great touch with the eyes and mouths staring into vacancy!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Brian Miller20 October 2013 at 21:35

    time plays no favorites...and will def ravish us all....

    ReplyDelete
  4. Vandana Sharma21 October 2013 at 00:27

    How true one day we all will be mud....reality of life

    ReplyDelete
  5. Natašek21 October 2013 at 01:59

    ha, i like the ending verse... very realistic..time cheats us.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Old Egg21 October 2013 at 05:14

    Ain't that the truth! However I intend to go out fighting.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Unknown21 October 2013 at 05:39

    Your words are very powerful. It is hard to beat Time, but hopefully the days in between make it all worthwhile!

    ReplyDelete
  8. Lynn21 October 2013 at 06:51

    well done, this wasn't an easy looking group of words..

    ReplyDelete
  9. Kitty 21 October 2013 at 07:14

    I love this:

    "as if we could have noticed everything
    as if we could have prepared for tentacles
    that climbed our fortresses
    and left our eyes and mouths
    staring into vacancy"

    It puts me in mind of the media and how it winds around our lives and sucks the sanity from our heads. But that's just my perception. :) So magnificent. I truly enjoyed reading this.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Gillena Cox21 October 2013 at 10:20

    nice write

    much love...

    ReplyDelete
  11. gautami tripathy21 October 2013 at 11:38

    I loved the end lines.....

    balance it out

    ReplyDelete
  12. chamomile sea21 October 2013 at 18:15

    Well said. There is a lot of truth to be found here.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Sabra Bowers24 October 2013 at 06:28

    So much truth in the last stanza. Well done.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the gentle night to you.
Moon and stars pour their healing light on you

Popular posts from this blog

Abby and Hopie time

Image
  ~ ~ ~ Abby and Hopie go to the beach. On Saturday my granddaughter, Abigail, asked if she could come to her Hopie's house all by herself. Of course, I said I would love that! Her older brother, Verne, wanted to go to a friend's house and her younger sister, Natalie, is too young to be away from mum for an overnighter. So...it was me and Abigail for the weekend. She wanted to stay 2 nights! I think she may have been slightly motivated by the need for some alone time and Natalie's late night crying. ~ We cooked homemade cornmeal waffles together for breakfast. When your grandmother is a Montessori teacher you learn to cut your waffles up by yourself. You can see the concentration on her face.  I didn't help at all! Verne's first day of Kindergarten! I drove up in the morning to watch him get on the bus! He loves it! On Monday morning Abigail and I drove back up to her house. My daughter, Hannah, came over with delicious donuts and Bonnie made a breakfast of bacon, s
Read more

a basket from the farmer's market

Image
  A basket from the farmer's market. When I was a child my mum always had a fruit basket on the kitchen table.  Fruit was always an option if we were hungry at any time during the day. I had the same when my children were young and I noticed while visiting my daughter last week that she had a basket of apples on her table for her children. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree... I tend to put a basket of vegetables on the table as well.  Root veggies mostly since they don't need to be refrigerated.  I think that they look beautiful and why should fruit have all the fun! My favourite part is that everything (even the basket) came from the local farmer's market. It's so important to support local farmers. Healthy food - healthy planet - healthy us nature notes Image-in-ing
Read more

On the table

Image
 ~ ~ ~ A bit of reading material.  I've been collecting books again... I've almost finished Think Indigenous.  My daughter bought it as a gift for me but decided to read it first. She loved it so much it took her a bit to part with it. I am loving it as much as she did and have put it down almost all the way through  because I don't want it to be over.  Macro tex
Read more