Friday, July 11, 2025

Fly on the wall

Looking in the window

My senses in a tizzy!

A spectrum of colours,

A gust of wind, ushering me inside.

 

The tapestry of life shining through,

A tear here, a secret lover’s glance there.

Listless grey of sadness darkens one room,

Tinkering laughter glows gold in another.

 

I taste green, the colour of plenty, but my mouth goes bitter from poisonous envy.

There is madness hidden in a riot of colours,

And then a calm voice driving those blues away.

A sudden red hot glaze of anger shoots at me.

 

I back off into the halls, curiouser and curiouser.

I buzz, hmm and haw through life.

I see, I hear, I smell, I taste,

Quietly, subversively.

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Pressure Cooker

Bubbling water, escaping steam

The slow buildup to a whistle

It betrays the pressure underneath

Gritting teeth, tense shoulders

Causing a churning within

Leading to unseen invisible explosions

The pressure to conform

The pressure to please

With brain and tongue searching for excuses

And the heart straining to lash out

And then you take a moment

Just before the tipping point

Making up your mind

You go for a long sweet whistle of steam

As you exhale, shoulder loosens, teeth stop grating and your nerves send up a prayer of gratitude.

They pray, never again.

Never again shall you burst from inside.

And yet here we are cooking the very next day.