Ripple Stones

I’m sorry your skies have turned a colder blue
And I wouldn’t want to disturb more than I do
But sometimes you have to throw
A pebble in a pool
Ripple stone
Ripple stone
Watching ripples as they roam
Far from view

Above the starlings fly across a cold winters’ sky
A flock of a thousand birds so wide
All flying back home
A path well flown
Ripple stone
Ripple stone
Watching starlings as they roam
Far from view

The orchard sleeps deep in a blanket of sheep
While the cold air’s the only company you keep
I’ll throw a pebble in a pool
For I’d rather be a fool
Ripple stone
Ripple stone
Watching ripples as they roam
Far from view

Untrace Your Steps

Untrace your steps

Set down the heavy load

Leave it here, with me now

And I will unwind

The truth to you

Under the lampost, in the shade of the church

Lika a Madonna lost in a dark room

A halo of light falling on your thoughts

Listened to by the quiet stone steps

And echoing in your silent prayer vigil

Do not follow those old ghosts

That keep their cold grip

A mist rising to haunt you

Untrace your steps

Into the new day

Across a crowd, a face you recognised once

Like a mirage burning into the heat of the day

Lost in a maze of bright connections

The call that beats a drum in your blood

Freedom running through the veins

Untrace your steps

And steer a new course

Under the bright star of hope

And you will find

Your heart already knows the way

Pay it Forward

If I'm gonna spend my money today

It's gonna be to make something stay

Not on baubles, not on gold

But something better in this world

You wanna stay around that's fine by me

But I'm done playing like it's all for free

Pay it forward

Lark

I won't trade on pretty easy

And I don't see why I should

Because this world is based on ugly

And it never balances the books

And for every coin you take you'll see

Those coins are never debt free

Just a token for a way to be

Enslaved by a society

It's pretty clear to me

That I prefer to be free

I may never be a millionaire

But frankly dear, I just don't care

I'll run a comb through my hair

And thank the stars I'm me

Because once the pity party's done

The road back is a gruelling one

And it's pretty clear to me

That I prefer to be free

After all your deals and dollar runs

After the highs and lows so hard won

Have you anything for a kingdom come

Or are you still on your knees

And for every coin you take you'll see

Those coins are never debt free

Just a token for a way to be

Enslaved by a society

A lark is singing in the sky

It sings the loudest way up high

And it's pretty clear to me

That it prefers to be free

I may never be a millionaire

But frankly dear, I just don't care

I'll run a comb through my hair

And thank the stars I'm me

Because

It's pretty clear to me

That I prefer to be free

Sticker album 2018

Working on a new set of stuff...

Frosty Yule

Underfoot the path is icy

Still slick with the morning frost

I can feel my feet slip

Just enough to make me falter

Uncertain, I look around

For safer ground

To find the grass is singing

Ablaze with early silver sunshine

Festooned with ice crystals

All shining brightly in the light

And overhead in a blue sky

Choirs of cloud angels fly

Soon the year turns

A slow alchemy

Changing

Like the frost to mist

In the sunlight

Now

I have paused long enough

For the cold air to bite through my coat

Trees drip with melt water

But the Yule light has filled my heart

And the ice is vapour in the air
The path ahead is there


Adding a couple more bits and pieces here which were part of 'Windchimes' last year but somehow never posted.  (14/04/18)

The Thorn on the Hill

Silver running

And cobalt blue

St Catherine

St Julian

And St Joan

All the thrones

Turning the sky

My thirsty soul

Turns to the view

And drinks deep

Rinsed in light

Silver running

And cobalt blue

This rock

This throne

This sky

This stone

St Catherine

St Julian

And St Joan

This land

Bathed in light
Love calls home

Angel

Fall into my arms and sing

Voice as soft as angels wings

We will find a way to bring

Love into the world

Dark Energy

I imagine inside the black hole

Where I have been condensed to

A point of non-existence

An image erased to nothing but faint reminders

An echo frozen

And from this point

I see the whole universe is now

Travelling in two directions

Expanding and contracting

Ever faster

Ever slower

Quantum bellows exhorting

This puffer fish engine into shape

I see everything

While I am nothing

My very substance transformed from solid

To a strange phantasm

Pouring back into the universe

All trace of me gone

And yet reborn

Beyond the quantum sum

I am released from gravity's grip

An incoherent chaos

Of nothing

Returned