Take control of your Joy Let no one destroy it Inner peace is the key Hold on tight and don’t quit jj2017

I’m not sure how I feel about eternity now As an escape, it’s flawed because you can never come back As a feeling, it’s frustrating because sometimes you just want to get on with it And what sort of eternity are we talking about? Is…

At 150,000 miles the sun appeared a reddish dot against an indistinct grey sky its color a clever cover for the furnace within Bleary-eyed and a bit numb I drift through my morning routine thinking of as little as possible because I know what happens…

Smoke fans out from the fire travelling hundreds of miles in search of its own demise But it cannot escape the heat however far it flees from the flames the sun will still have its way Clouds provide no relief it has been 49 days…

the little bird : is making me : weep : as she always does : thinking of : what i’ve lost : & may never have

the swing somewhere near my childhood a swing hangs from the branch of an old tree which leans over the edge of a cliff often filled with mist an ancient house hides nearby only a few family members know of this tree’s odd power to…

times like these dear M——— at times like these : my thoughts turn : once again would i have been happier : if i remained here : if i never met : never loved : never lost : you : if i stayed : where…

fable of a fairy tale One of Aesop’s foxes ; Ted, Goldilocks’ Papa Bear ; & Little Red stirring it through Soviet 60’s suburbia in the strident bright sunshine. Cinderella has run away to the city (again) & they want to bring her home (again)…

maxwell only together   a few weeks found fluffball   treeblown stormshaken   unable to fly fed you mince  so you grew cheeky & raucous   clutched my finger   sat  on my shoulder beaktangled  my hair till the devastating day i didn’t shut  …

This is the first few lines of a famous nature poem, put through the ring cycle of Google Translate (English to Esperanto to Bulgarian to Spanish to Arabic to Urdu to Afrikaans to German to Zulu to Yiddish back to a sort of English to…