Pockets – Full of memories

I stuff my hand in my pocket, and I find coarse damp sand, broken shells and brightly-coloured stones from the beach. As I pull out slimy, popping seaweed and squawking gulls from my other pocket, the stench of the cold and dull grey sea fills my lungs, and I am grateful not to have a […]

I Want To Be – Not yet certain

I want to be me, but the me which is only occasionally me wants to be me too. Problem. I want to be left alone, but only when I don’t want to be with you and all of them too. I want to be younger, with the knowledge I have now……but everyone wants that. I […]

Commuting – Wish it was the weeken

Dawn cracks the grey skies into blue, and the radio seems to crackle louder. This time of road-weary truck drivers rubbing the sleep from their eyes, and the mad-dash commuters tearing holes in the tar, as their too-fast sports cars don’t quite make it into the crisp, morning air. And I’m tired of doing the […]

Change Will Keep Coming For You – But you can be ready for it

We are, by our very nature, resistant to change. And when we get older, it seems that we have a reputation of being even slower to adapt. That may be true for some people, and perhaps even more true for the very old, but there are many of us growing older, seeking new opportunities for […]

Changing The Guard – Marking a new beginning

Who’s there?This changing of the guardmarks a new beginning wherefair question becomes quite hard. Another passagefrom one age to another stagein life’s little struggle and searchfor meaning.We seem to lurchfrom one answer to another,seeking solace from sister and brother,asking what we inherit.What was it of our parentsthat was of merit, and considered worthwhileto pass on […]

Brave Little Heart – A leap to freedom

I leaptto freedombut I missedmy footingand I landedon earthwith a bumpno freedom therewith all thatenslavementexploitationand addictionnot much chanceof the people, mebeing one of themnow,exercising theirfree-will apartfrom the occasionalfuck off ormaybe, now and thencutting free, onlyto come crashingback to the realityof mostly not havingbeen born into moneyor privilege, or insome cases,not even a roofover their headsor […]

Dear Bullies – Open letter to the bullies I have had in my life

Dear Bullies You have been many in my life, some of you have beaten me, sometimes because I was the smallest, and easy to pick on, other times because I was the one who couldn’t run away (because I had no breath to do so), many times for not supporting your football team — worse still, for […]

Participation – Now

what if life were tomove slowlytravelling through timein new silenceif we had a changeof presenceexperiencing more fullyunderstanding thatnothing isas it wasbeforeand what if nothing willeverbe the same againwill that beginthe transitionfrom observerto participant how would it beif we stopped countingand if there was no needto jumpto the next thingand the nextif we stay with the […]

Amy Yin – Dancing, dreaming and dying

Dear Michael I know your secret and, what’s more, I am going to reveal it to the world. That is, unless you decide that we could come to some other arrangement. I don’t see any point in concealing my identity, because you’re not going to tell anyone else, and it would be advantageous for us […]

A Handful of Words – For your amusement

Abundance — A rival form of dance to that of Morris Dancing, often performed with food items as props (real meaning — plenty, large quantity). Ajillytea — A type of hot drink valued by older people for improving their movements (see also ‘Mohbillytea’). Annasteeja — Where people now store their tea bags, named after the first person to […]