Then We Knew

 

“When life begins

   feeling too distant, 

When, unknowingly,

   distances lengthen

Gaps form and 

  waver all around……”

Gaps are invisible

   but filled with our lives

Distance is felt when,

  from the blue, a note arrives

Then we know…..

    how long it has been.

“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

~ Rohinton Mistry,  A Fine Balance

Author’s Note: the first three stanza’s were penned by one of my characters (Dez) from Episode 130 of Situationally Theirs. It is a story of two sisters that I wrote throughout the COVID 19 pandemic.

Where We Live

Come with me and 

Listen to a story

Of birds and trees

And bumblebees

Of children dancing

In the rain

And the love of

kittens and of dogs

Of kitchen tables full of food, 

Of laughter and of love

And all these things 

Go round the world

With different songs 

Afnd dress and voice.

We live, we love, we cry

No matter where we live.

“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be 

more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”

~ Patrick Ness,  A Monster Calls

The Joy of Walking

Vancouver May 2015

Walking lets me stay 

  under the broad sky 

    cloudy or clear. 

Walking lets me feel 

   the rain on my face, 

     a snow flake on my nose, 

       the wind combing my hair 

Walking lets me feel 

   the world of nature all around

    whether city or on the land. 

Walking lets me move a body

  that is part of nature 

   stiffened with the decades 

     but still walks a good clip 

walking has been my life 

  from morn til night 

    in my home or in the world

“Above all do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself 

into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness;”

~ Søren Kierkegaard