A hand reaches down.
And picks them up, gingerly, gently, with care.
A fractured fragment.
A shattered shard.
Brittle, broken, ruptured remnants.
Places them in order. Continue reading →
Month / July 2015
AWAKEN, INHALE, INGEST
Why can’t we see sweetness and smell fuschia?
Feel crimson and taste ultramarine?
Hear sorrow and see softness?
Smell happy and hear bitter?
Why can’t we touch brightness?
Hear wet earth?
See the salt in the ocean?
SANS SOUCI
I look forward to…
A world less divided
With less inequality
More latitude
And open doors
EARTH’S DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY
Father Time. Mother Nature. Mankind as their children. Continue reading →
MY HA’PENNY’S WORTH
* In this mad race,
What are you running towards? Continue reading →
IN THE COMPANY OF…
AN ANT’S ANGSTY RANTS
What’s this, am I bug eyed or something? Why is everything looking so outsized today??? I mean, every little thing seems huuuge!
Oh, that’s the sun, is it? Up already? Shit! Must I work today? I just don’t feel like crawling out of bed! But if I don’t, that damn queen will send the whole colony after me, while she stays home getting bonked by the drones, laying eggs. And half the guys out there, forget about carrying more than their own weight, they don’t even pull their own. So I’m gonna have to drag all those leaves from the garden all the way up our hill. I mean, WTF?
Lemme see now… nope, not one interesting picnic happening in the neighbourhood today! Man, what a bummer! I’m just going to have to queue up and kiss every bloody stranger I pass by before getting a nibble of that one tiny sugar crystal fallen on the kitchen counter! It’s such a drag, this social claptrap, I just don’t feel up to it today!
That’s it, then. I’ve made my mind up – I’m withdrawing my allegiance to the Queen and I quit this damn army, I’ll go it alone from today!
What’s that stomping noise? Oh yeah, the owner of this house bought a new pair of heavy boots last evening, I’ve gotta be careful not to get in his way and get squelched! Who does he think he’s calling a bloody creepy, crawly, pesky insect, huh? I still gotta pay him back for getting rid of my buddies Buzz, Mozz, Roach and Spidey with his deathspray.
And say what? He’s getting his Colombian friend over tonight? Jeez, it could be me getting dipped, coated and crunched! And then they say that inspite of all the sugar I eat, I’m all protein? And I’m a sour tasting critter?? Is that why the Colombian guy wants to have a bite of me au chocolate? Come on, you can’t be serious???
Man, I’m mad! I think I’m just gonna nip out of this hole, scurry up his pants, nip him in the nuts and march right back in to my nest!
Hah! Just thinking revenge makes me feel just a teeny bit better!
Celebrating my 50th Post…!!!
A shout out to everybody in the local languages of the lands in which I have been read… Find yours!
(Coming as I do from a country with 600+ tongues, this one was easy!)
Toda!
Go raibh mait agat!
Dankjewel!
Tack!
Ngiyabonga!
Enkosi!
Khob khun!
Istuti!
Xie xie!
Dwo tse!
Salamat!
Takk!
Dhonnobaad!
Na gode!
Arigato!
E dupe!
Teşekkür ederim!
Dekuji!
Danke!
Spasibo!
Grazie!
Dankie!
Obrigado!
Shukriya!
Dhanyavaad!
Multumesc!
Teri mah kasih!
Asante!
Gracias!
Nandri!
Merci!
Shokran! .
Gomabseubnida!
..and Thank you!
AND SO I WRITE…
I have thoughts I can’t articulate
I have words I can’t speak
I have stories no one will sit through
I know jokes no one wants to hear
I have a speech ready but no audience
I have advice but no takers
I have secrets but no one to spill them to
I have a wish and no one to reveal to
I have fears that I am phobic of expressing
I have fantasies I cannot bring myself to enact
I have knowledge but none to impart to
I speak a language no one understands
I have experiences no one wants to share
I have a talent I want to showcase
And so I write
random rants ruminations ramblings 