Taexalia

wild.life

Bird Haiku

Perched Kestrel watches Frost holds the earth in stasis Five Curlew fly ... read more

Forest Floor

I am the damp dank brown undergrowth

I am the palette of spent life

I am the tangle of the dead of winter

I am the lifeless leaves underfoot

I am the fragrant stench of decay

I am the life that begins in death

I am the humus of ending and ... read more

Waking Walking

First Feet Fragment Frost

Crisp White

Crunching

Forth Fog

Shields Shores

Red Sky ... read more

Beyond the realms of here and nowSomething comes towards usOur thoughts and dreams build hazy shapesAnd bring options into sightBeyond the realms of here and nowOur hazy dream shapes curdleAnd through the veil a path formsAnd our steps bring us closerAmongst the realms of here and thereOur choices change our landscapeAnd step by step what was a dreamBecomes the here and nowInspired by this week's prompt at Writer's ... read more

Impulse

Impulsea quivering big red button in my soulwears different coloured sockslaughs at inhibitionexhilaratessays yesdances naked in the rainbuys expensive red shoesfalls in love with a piraterushes towards deliciouscareens towards future regretsexplores dangerous pathsruns before it can walksays noanswers temptationwinks at a strangerflies in the face of reasonshakes the dayjumps at the chancevibratesInspired by this week's prompt at Writer's ... read more

Thank You

Laughter is fleetingas the storm clouds loomand my shoulders sagBut it's laughter nonethelessthat you charm out of meand the darkness liftsNot for you do I needto be a perfect womanalways smiling in the sunshineNot for you do I needto have every situationlickedWhen all I have is nothingand my tears blend with the rainyou keep holding onFor you'll be therewhen I'm under black cloudsnot just on sunny ... read more

When you feel down, go up

I awoke this morning feeling depressed and harbouring a sense of dread that today will resemble yesterday. The only positive thing about my waking was that I awoke by myself without any outside influences. I lay there dreading the idea of trying to write, or think, or paint, or do anything creative and being repeatedly disturbed by unpredictable, unwelcome interruptions.It is not good or healthy to wake up feeling like that, it doesn't exactly move the day forward, so just for today I put my ... read more