Thursday 17 December 2015

Come on My Future

Come on My Future

Too fast, too slow, too head long, too scared,
too many mistakes, too many attempts,
too desperate to find you,
too much searching, too much angst,
too much emotion.

Slow down I must,
patience I must have.
Delight in the now there must be.
Learning from the past I must take.
Moving forward steadily I must go,
trusting in the path of destiny....I must!!

Loving the life I am having,
knowing the truth,
understanding destiny.
Preparation meeting opportunity.
I have prepared,
now lets embrace opportunity.
Come on my future
I am here....




29.9.15

 

A Place, Apart

A place, Apart

So here we are,
A place, apart.
Dreams have come and gone
and my bed is cold on your side.
You just upped, and left
and tore my world in two.

You didn't look back,
no glance was cast
No second thought to repair
the heart that beat for you.
The beat that steadily stopped as it realised,
you had, for real,
just gone.

But why? Why did the love grow cold?
Why did it not show,
how could I not know?
I feel a fool, you played along
and made me feel you loved me
when now I see,
it was not to be
your greater love was you.






16th June 2015A 

Tuesday 20 October 2015

I am living with a chronic illness, this poem resonates with me, I hope you take something from it.     Written by John O'Donoghue


Now is the time of dark invitation
Beyond a frontier that you did not expect;
Abruptly, your old life seems distant.

You barely noticed how each day opened
A path through fields never questioned,
Yet expected deep down to hold treasure.
Now your time on earth becomes full of threat;
Before your eyes your future shrinks.

You lived absorbed in the day to day,
So continuous with everything around you,
That you could forget you were separate;

Now this dark companion has come between you,
Distances have opened in your eyes,
You feel that against your will
A stranger has married your heart.

Nothing before has made you
Feel so isolated and lost.

When the reverberations of shock subside in you,
May grace come to restore you to balance.
May it shape a new space in your heart
To embrace this illness as a teacher
Who has come to open your life to new worlds.

May you find in yourself
A courageous hospitality
Towards what is difficult,
Painful and unknown.

May you use this illness
As a lantern to illuminate
The new qualities that will emerge in you.

May the fragile harvesting of this slow light
Help you to release whatever has become false in you.
May you trust this light to clear a path
Through all the fog of old unease and anxiety
Until you feel arising within you a tranquility
Profound enough to call the storm to stillness.

May you find the wisdom to listen to your illness:
Ask it why it came? Why it chose your friendship?
Where it wants to take you? What it wants you to know?
What quality of space it wants to create in you?
What you need to learn to become more fully yourself
That your presence may shine in the world.

May you keep faith with your body,
Learning to see it as a holy sanctuary
Which can bring this night-wound gradually
Towards the healing and freedom of dawn.

May you be granted the courage and vision
To work through passivity and self-pity,
To see the beauty you can harvest
From the riches of this dark invitation.

May you learn to receive it graciously,
And promise to learn swiftly
That it may leave you newborn,
Willing to dedicate your time to birth.

Thursday 1 October 2015

Onwards....Forwards...Upwards


A day at a time, little steps
into an unknown world that lies ahead.
Stretching out into a void of anticipation.
Cautious, excited, fearful, scared.

Will it be a future with friends who love and support
or one where I find
yet more love and romance?
Will there be someone who can love me,
as I crave?

One whom I can trust, with my heart
and with my hopes.
Is this possible? Dare I hope? Dare I?
But I have no choice...
Sit back, and take those little steps
A day at a time
and.......mmmm, let's hope.


June 16th 2015 
Revivalism.....

What is this thing called Revival?
What is this source of energy and passion?
Why has it touched lives and souls?
Why is it continuing in this crazy fashion?
When will the dream start to fade?
When will the people get bored and staid?
Where is this journey taking us
Where do we find the continued energy and drive?
Wont it take us down crazy paths?
Wont it make us for greater things strive?
Wonder then how magic can happen!
Wonder then what people can do!
Whereas we could just sit and wonder.....
Whereas it could be just me and you.....
Want’ is where we are at right now
‘Want’ is for Revival to blossom and flourish
Wherein we find the more we push harder
Wherein we know Revival will thrive!!



Angela

July 12th 2014 
Just a few shots from the last couple of months that have made me smile 
London/Scilly Isles/Stones Place/Manchester















A Time and a Place

So, where does this time take me,
to lands, and dreams, far from the comfortable homestead.
To take on challenges and to learn
to be daring, for courage to be my new ally.

For challenges of strength, of stamina, of patience,
for challenges of understanding.....

With time, my friend, a gift I am given
of opportunities to strengthen the resolve
and character that I carry.
I can benefit from this gift and
rise to each occasion,
or fall, and fail, or lose my strength in spirit
and be lost in misunderstanding.....

The choice is mine, in each and every action
to be a victor, or a victim
only time ....will tell you
the outcome......


Friday 19 June 2015

The Journey of Two Lovers to Santiago



Two lovers set out on a journey
there is anticipation and a wonder
for the adventure that lies ahead.
From an initial step, a thousand
more follow and the journey takes
shape into the unknown,
with chance encounters, scenes of delight,
rest stops to refresh and local delicacies to devour,
with painful steps and tired feet
and beds to find to sleep.
The journey presses on,
each day a new challenge, a new high, a new low,
and a destination a little nearer.

The journey is not an easy one,
others have had more joy,
have given the travellers memories that
now are sacred and treasured.
But onwards must this journey go,
along an ancient path.
The pilgrims journey on Camino
is a journey into self,
to discover and to challenge and
to reawaken inner strength.

And so the lovers journey presses on,
for strength is needed now,
and precious memories reawaken the dream
once held so dear.
The challenge to the pilgrim here
is to take each painful step
towards the final destination,
where one is left to rest.

And so we reach Santiago and the
lovers journey must end.
A promise kept, a vow not broken,
a journey re discovered.
But only two feet were on that path,
for one was carried along.
For the lovers vow was to take his
love once more, a final time,
within his heart
and within his hands,
as he carried her along the way,
along Camino that together they once trod,
when full of life and hope.

He now steps out, alone once more
into a new adventure, satisfied, yet
full of sadness, and even a little anger,
but with a heart full of Camino love
and hope for a new future,
for he has tasted true love
and his journey
is not yet over.....




For Emilio and Holly
the love he has lost
but for hope and happiness once more xxx

16th June 2014
the day before arriving in Santiago
a message seen written on the wall of an underpass, left the day before


tears flowed.....




A Journeys End

A start, a promise, an adventure
to tread paths yet unknown,
with optimism and hope and anticipation
of a journey that lies ahead.

Time lays out before, with an end
hardly in sight and mind,
but day by day the time trickles by
and each precious moment
slips through without realisation.

The days are filled with fun
with laughter and appreciation,
plus the ying yang of pain, sorrow and fear
and fill those seconds with living,
with the end gathering ever nearer.

Life itself is as this journey,
each day comes and goes,
some will embrace the opportunities they bring
others will simply feel
them a drudge and a bore.

It is up to us to embrace life’s journey,
to fill to capacity the
memories we take along,
for all to soon we will find....
we are at the station
ready to depart




19th June 2014

La Caruna train station and train