PLUCK

BIAS BINDING

Photo credit and thanks to  Hitarth Jadhav from Pexels

Eye meets rolling eye

Two sides of screen

With space between.

Seeing your sorrow

I yearn to remind you:

Trolls can’t write your life

Cowards your story

Keyboard guerrillas

Can’t spin your tale

Bluster can't trail your blaze.

Block silky fibbers

Who flatter ‘my dear’

Who throw you really? and ‘quite’

A ‘maybe’ to minimize

Your dance through inner light.

Love yourself better than you do,

Hold yourself more kindly

Than you dare to deserve,

Your shining not muddied

By shade they thrash to throw.

Let their bitterest bile

Surge around you

Stand strong in the flow

May your ease be as chiffon

Wade as you weep

Stepping stones hidden

Now found by your feet

Let their bias not bind you

Sing your truth

Though your throat feels crumpled

By bullying blanks.

Rescue your radiance,

Child of forever

You are stardust

You are synchronous

Supernova

You come without commentary

Golden glossed.

NEW YEAR SLOWS ITS STRIDE, BECKONS - AN INVITATION FOR 2018

The New Year slows its stride, beckons.
That wistful smile.
This is no blank canvas.
It comes pricked out with pictures under its skin,
Ink quivers a jet mirror, still in the nib.

Courage, winsome ones and wanderers!
Let's resolve to meet it all with mindful moments,
Future deliquescent into ripples of nowness.

Let's not miss this risk, this life, looking beyond.
Let's not cringe, not wince from the lyrical light.

Be there no regretted chance.
Midnight fires in spidered wheels of crystalline
Exploding through the spectrum,
Burn hello to tomorrow.

Dare to show up in your soul, crafting the possible
From the blissful imperfect.
Trust and go toddling!
Listen enthralled to compassion's soft whisper.
Learn your name afresh.
Let the critic fall silent.

May the crisp calendar call you
Out of fears into flying,
Out of dread into stepping
On stone, off springboard.

This be our moment for joy!
There is no other.

[You can see and hear me read this on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UasBACv8YIU&feature=youtu.be]

WRITING DOUBLE DARE

"Write what you know!"

Writing advice we've all heard.

But what if you don't really know what you think you know? You know?

Here's an idea.

Write what you dare!
Write what you dare to imagine!

If we never dare to write while clinging by our sweaty fingertips to the edge of what we might never be sure of, stomach churning, naked to possibility, how will we really know anything, anyway?

Living's a risky venture. Writing sometimes has to kick away the stabilisers, if we want to grow, exhilarated and incorrigible, into the writers we were born to be.

Write what excites you, challenges you, expands you, pushes you to your limits.

I double dare you!