Looking for you

​I spent my life looking for you

Now I have found you,am happy but blue

It’s too late for you to be my mate

Wasted years, parlous state

Too many miles travelled

Too many locks to unravel

Could I be selfish and go with my heart

Whilst breaking many others,would just be the start

Now I stand on the precipice 

Looking back and forwards on the edge of bliss

Knowing that glimpse is my only prize

Now a life wedded to duty and fuelled by lies

I spent my life looking for you

Such a stupid thing to do! 

Procession of life.

​Procession of life, love, lies, toil and joy

Summon good vibes, ignore the blind alleys, miss the decoys

Shine me a light so I don’t miss what I should see

Will the future take me where I want to be

Resolve to move forward

Rebooting my thought processes, running the gauntlet

Open to a world of possibilities

Discard outmoded thoughts and sensibilities 

Procession of life, love, lies, toil and joy

Winter Haiku

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In the lanterns glow

Bare frosted branches spark

 Darkness of winter
🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑🎑
Drab dreary days depress

Winter of the long dark nights 

Glow of the Holly Berry
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Winters creation falls

Intricate snowflake

Chaos and Joy unfold

Proverb’s and sayings.

​The grass is always greener on the other side

Does that mean we should run there, or take time to decide

Curiosity killed the cat

Should we make note of that

A rolling stone doesn’t gather moss

Is that about living life, not giving a toss

All that glitters is not gold

Dreams are good but check the road

Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water

Hold onto the good, reflect, reorder

Every cloud has a silver lining

If only we could see past hurt and anger, learn, stop pining

Life is not about making others happy

It’s about sharing your happiness with others

Proverbs and sayings litter our speech

Are there truths there within our reach?

  

Choices

​Am I truly happy? 

Could I have been happier?

Did I make the right choice last year?

If I had taken a different route, would I have less fear?

Does happiness have a pinnacle?

Or will tomorrow supply me more?

If my choices had been different,would I have a better outcome?

If I could rewind would I climb a different mountain?

Take a deep breath and stop the angst

I cannot obssess about what might have been

Am I content in the now?

Working on that with all my know how

I have to adapt, learn to change

Look to the future to rearrange

The past is the past it will help me to learn

But if I obsess, I won’t get a return

I can day dream the changes my life would have

But I will never know, its a life I never had

Am I truly happy?

If not I must strive

Move into the future

New choices to derive

Tricky?

​Attraction snuck up on us quickly

The lure of romance in the air

That first wave of emotion swept us away

No need for Tinder, its redundant today

We floated along on clouds of pheromones 

Unpinned by laughter and shared interest

We couldn’t stop touching each other

 Magnetism was off the top of the scale

This seemed like a long term relationship

It was too exciting to fail

Our essences wove tight together

Linked tightly, something to treasure

Then one day we seemed to falter

Things seemed to subtlety alter

A ripple and tearing of our bond

Has part of the attraction left

I am feeling slightly bereft

Attraction snuck up on us quickly

Is phase two going to be tricky? 

Conversations and pictures

​Our conversations are pulling me in

Pictures we devlop will always begin 

Yielding desires as well they might

 Tingling sensations trigger me tight

Setting the stage for the feelings to come

Just the distance to be overcome.
Inspired by the Novel Converging Lives.

Paradox

​The relentless beat of insect wings

The incessant  drone of the bee

Sounds so loud to my sensitive nerves

So many sounds for free

The hunting cry of the owl at night

The barking of the fox

All these sounds are so intense 

A quintessential paradox

Heightened awareness seems to me

A product of new found joy

An awareness of natures full estate

As my nerve endings strive to deploy.