Winter not so wonderland

August 7, 2014 by ramblingsfromamum

Coats soon will be discarded
They’ll accompany the scarves
Alone they’ll wait until the
Day they’re desired again
Winds will blow dragging winter
Cold to other hemispheres
The sun waits gathering strength
To burst through clouds
Her temperatures bringing warmth
We long for strappy sandals
With sand touched toes
Bare shoulders, the sun against our backs
The days that never end
Balmy wine kissed nights
Lying on sheets counting stars
Through open windows
This time will soon to be ours again
To close the cupboard on winter
Knowing that its taken residence
Elsewhere in the world

Pendulum (Prose)

September 23, 2013 by ramblingsfromamum

the pendulum sways side to side

tick

tock

tick

my hand pushes….

back

forth

back

I wonder, have you gone clockwise through life a destination held firm, from visions that you had seen or from what you have learned the seconds of the clock slowly passing time regimented ~ telling when to step, to place one foot and then the other, the goals, the dreams the plans

a life mapped, ideas of when and how and what or perhaps you drifted, when unexpectedly an event threw the equilibrium ~ I'd throw a life line, to drag you back to what you had foreseen, tell you to hang on tight ~ or is this the place you'd rather be

life throws curve balls, what we envisaged it to be uproots itself from the plans we had, makes us lost and insecure, yet we want grounding do we not
not to be swayed, no glitches that lead a different path or do we say to hell with it, let the dice roll as they may

my feet are grounded, though at times I may stagger or be challenged in some way I want my feet on terra firma, on the road I choose right now and if a ‘jack in the box’ should appear then that’s my destiny and I shall face head on for I do not wish to stray into the anti-clockwise of my life