I was skating on Saturn’s rings,
Ice shards tunnelling into my vision
Like blistering diamond tears
Melting away into a brilliant blue.
I was skating on Saturn’s rings,
Looked up and saw the mighty giant.
It smiled at me through its great eye,
decorated with lashes of pure golden beige.
I was skating on Saturn’s rings,
Is that even possible?
I looked towards the Earth.
And you were thinking about me.
Categories:
tunnelling, 12th grade, analogy, love,
Form: Verse
As he spoke,
His words were like a hammer, shattering the defences of darkness.
They were like light tunnelling through the night.
They were like the sun rising to brighten the sky.
Oh, we were misled by our choices.
Oh, we were obscured by our decisions.
We walked believing in our desires,
Holding the lamps of our preferences.
They are eyes that see further than we can.
They can see through the veiled.
They are minds that access the chambers of secrets,
Searching the depths of the hidden.
The sage dispelled gloom from our rooms,
Showing our feet the right paths.
He made us see what was present but unknown,
Opening the door to a new dawn.
January 27, 2024.
Categories:
tunnelling, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Why do we engage in rancour and strife?
Our differences are the pieces of a puzzle called life,
Each piece brought from its end,
Some pieces brought out of the night,
Some pieces were found in the light.
Some pieces have journeyed through the woods,
Some pieces have traversed varying meadows,
Tunnelling through the shadows,
Coming together to make a complete whole
in their disparate dispositions and varying moods.
Each piece in its shade and hue,
Come together by a principle that’s timeless & true,
Harmonizing into an entity,
Amidst its symphony of disparity,
Rhythm in existence scale.
January 12, 2024.
Categories:
tunnelling, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Haze.
Constant urges.
Distraction.
Wrinkles in skin,
And in sheets.
Unsaid.
Unthinkable.
Daring.
Would I? Dare.
One step closer.
Deeper.
Tunnels.
Branches.
Static, constantly.
Quiet is loud.
I just want to help.
Going backwards.
The future constantly changes.
It swirls around in a mist of uncertainty.
Rescinding - my thoughts,
Words.
Burrowing into the soil of my mind.
Categories:
tunnelling, deep, lost, psychological,
Form: List
Beneath the garden wood pile I hear sounds of excavation
As a hedgehog starts preparing for his autumn hibernation
My tortoise getting drowsy ready for his autumn sleep
Is tunnelling beneath the debris of the garden rubbish heap
Squirrels burying nuts and acorns, planning for the months ahead
Know exactly where to find them when requiring to be fed
Red berries bright and glistening on my Holly Bush so prickly
An autumn treat for birds, as they scoff them oh so quickly
I would really love to hibernate from autumn through to spring
I could snore through all the snow and ice and wake up really thin
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Categories:
tunnelling, autumn, sleep, sound,
Form: Couplet
16.12.2016
"If you desire healing,
let yourself fall ill,
Let yourself fall ill"
-Jalaluddin Rumi
You must have been asleep, Rumi,
waking from a dream
with such careless words.
Illness is a burden, you see,
like worms tunnelling through a ripe apple,
fog cloaking a narrow mountain path,
ropes with badly frayed threads.
Ask my sister,
whose life is spent breathless
and weak.
Ask my mother,
whose time is spent worried
and stressed.
Ask my father,
whose day is spent working
and tired.
Ask me,
whose childhood is spent ignored
and silent.
Categories:
tunnelling, angst, caregiving, family, health,
Form: Free verse
'Get a life'
arrow-words, jarring, ripping the womb
of reality.
and the entrails of possibilities gush forth
to form redemptive streams.
'Get a life'
Drill-bit words, tunnelling iron mountains
like a train given new life, like a train
given new life.
Shouted words
dashed against prior knowledge,
striking a fitting richochet.
The man in the mirror
picks himself up,
dons his courage and begins a new trek
on the trail of time.
Categories:
tunnelling, education, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse