Martin Shone's Blog, page 12

Heed

the named storm wakes mewith its whistles and drones I sit here listeningtrying to remember its name I forgetbut did I really take much notice so of course I haven’t forgottenif its name passed me by That crack in the ceilingthat scar in my mindthat sinking… softness of you once it’s futilethere’s nothing to remembernothing … More Heed

Let it go. Believe

Relax into the spirit of it all. We are often unbalanced as we move through our lives and often there’s a noise, a vibration, or a gut feeling and these signs are sometimes missed, and I for one am guilty of not listening or not appreciating that maybe the universe is trying to say something, … More Let it go. Believe

Release the fear

There are many reasons as to why we are, or feel fragile and also why we fear, but sometimes we fear because we are fragile, timid, controlled or unable to come to terms with our weaknesses or our imaginings of a weakness within us because those who do control prefer it that we stay inside … More Release the fear

When the dust settles

We are born seeing the world as a solid place with different surfaces: earth, air, water, fire and so forth. All solid in their own way. We go about our lives interacting with each surface creating things using a mixture of these solids which includes ourselves. Sometimes when there is a silence there comes a … More When the dust settles

Struggle

We struggle through our time we see so much of the things we’d rather not see we look upon each moment with a feeling of fear and yet, here we are living and loving through our time seeing and making things we love and with feeling, feeling with feeling we strike at the heart of … More Struggle

A glimpse

This life thing, this death thing this wonderful opportunity to breathe Everything has its day, everything has its night We grow through time until humanity becomes something more and as nature’s petals fall it reveals, gives us a glimpse of her secrets.

As a leaf falls

She will have her way as the slow progress of nature moves ever onwards. Time is irrelevant for the leaf because it knows one day it will become a tree, a rose or even a mountain as we struggle in the mulch of our own awakening.

The sunrise of your soul

Sometimes we don’t feel like smiling yet when someone smiles at us we nearly always smile back. At times we need help to get out of the rut we’re in to burn away those clouds fogging our view of not only what’s out there but what’s inside us so with a little help and a … More The sunrise of your soul

Wrapped in the glow of you

Our smiles radiate feelings and warmth which gives us an inner glow when we receive them therefore the more we smile the more the universe hugs us with her love.

A parched breath of morning

my brain is dead a numbskull an imbecile a rotting lump of lard it wakes this morning in the throes of emptiness it has drank my coffee and nibbled a nibble it has opened the curtains dived in the shower drank another coffee and nibbled another nibble so here it is writing an empty thing … More A parched breath of morning