It was Mothers Day here in New Zealand on Sunday. My daughters, without knowing it, gave me one of the best Mothers Day I’ve had. More than anything, a mother wishes for happy, content children and no major scuffles to break up! Miraculously, the whole day was one of peace, sunshine, blue sky and even […]
Prose for Thought
The colourful side of the wind in Wellington
When the wind whistles through dear Wellington there’s a place to be, where the wind is God. it turns wind to song, when birds don’t feel strong, and planes fly with daring, nose to the wind. Wind lights rainbows of engineering the stronger it blows, brighter the colours glow. The forests that strain, under windswept […]
Prose for Thought | Invisible
My poem this week sums up the feelings that many of us, especially parents, feel in any week. Life is a roller-coaster and some weeks there seems to be a little more fluctuation than others on the way. I’ve had so much on my mind and sometimes I find reading the news doesn’t help to […]
The Leaf | Prose for Thought
It fell like any other leaf, having given one last show of colour. It lost its grip, as the daylight diminished, and the winds started to blow. I looked up, as a whirl of wind caught my breath, and took me in its autumn dance. The golden leaves formed a tunnel, wrapping me in their […]
The Breathing Lake | Prose for Thought
Take me with your every breath, let me ride on your canoe, hide me from the dark shadows, and bath in your filtered light. Paint on my skin, like the sun, dipped in a heavenly palette. Caress my shoulders with air – that folds like a cloak around. I want to feel every sigh, the […]
A challenge to finish…
A challenge was set, from my friend Cyndi, aka Latte Junkie, for ‘Lyrical Sunday‘ this week. She gave a beautiful, poignant start to a poem for us to continue with (and she is going to finish it too – so, it will be interesting to see the different angles people take on this). The words […]