Notes On Writing

I live your life,

Colour them with words

Which become

Sentences that flow into paragraphs -

They shape the pages,

Dense woodlands of words made good.

I live your life,

Climb breathless your flanks

The steep track with its dragging gravity.

One word at a time,

One heartbeat following the next.

I live your life,

From some deep spring

Emerging to run quicksilver

Across

Low winter sun.

 

I live your life,

Never knowing who leads whom.

So where does this path go?

I live your life,

The unsullied white sheet

On which dreamtime plays

Amid brilliance and shadows

Warp & Weft -

Breaking through the undergrowth

Great oaks reach for the sky

Marking the drover’s way.