To get back into writing as a habit for my creative /expressive needs and to prepare to resume my children's writing course.
Monday, 12 June 2017
I am an ocean
Come then dive into my vast ocean
there are gallons and gallons of me.
So glad the blog page has a nice broad page 
a blanket I can pour my words onto like all the 
The wardrobes of memories in me
all the colours the bits and the pieces 
all the flotsam and jetsom
and currents astir
As i woke in my bed this morning
 I felt my body an octopus
 and the sheets the ripples 
and twist of the gulf stream 
every river and rain
dropping cloud melt 
of my girlfriends hair
so then I dreamt last night that my
 neighbours house had a moat of water a
gathering
and for a moment i was concerned 
lest their foundations got under mined 
like shoes n boots that let in the 
puddles of rain
but i have such a resilient articulate
 gift for discerning what is dream and what
belongs to what my parents 
suggested to the child of my earliness as 
o jimmy pay it no mind
from a vast and ever growing 
pieces of garments and fabrics
a patchwork it forms on the miles
 of white beach
you were feeling like hiding neath
 a stone and I can understand that
when the sun gets so bright and your
 colour wants to remain vibrandt 
and doesn't want to be so exposed to the 
whitening bleach
the beach offers miles of potential 
I would use it with parasols placed all along
neath one needles n thread and 
rolls and ripples of 
mighty find cloth
perhaps the next will have blocks
 and just white lengths and 
upon them we print out the blocks
 we have put our ideas on
the next has musicians a playing
yet we can any time we wish have the
 whole beach to ourselves we can wash our naked 
or clothed bodies in saltiness or
 neath a waterfall unsalt
 both ourselves
hosepipes of water to have fun and do squirty things
jackson Pollocks of invisible ink
clearing the vast beach its a canvas
I makes paper in trays of water and leave
 frames of moist paper to dry in the sun
we can add things or see the virginal pulp 
that later on will invite colour and ink
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
i'm not frightened I have such a restful
 and courteous body to rest in 
this had been both beach and blotting paper
 and all will be well
in me there is a vast beach 
and a vast ocean 
a vast sky 
and a slow pumping heart that says
all will be well now the storm is passed over
and when you swim there isn't as storm just 
a warm fire in a cave of warm imagination 
rest in its harbour made for a well 
wrapped up body with legs arms head tum and
neck n ankles 
there are books bonfires tenderness and as you rest gently 
un think
I will paint all the chosen fragments of meaning 
I gather like making breakfast from well chosen dreams
you can see me 
unsee me
recall 
and 
reveal me
I am both a well 
and so well
 for each thought is so gentle 
my mind bed's 
a good place
to lay down
in goodness
caressed by hands
 that are artist hands 
who feel out the wonder
 the niggles and tingles
and thrill to the joy of you 
so well arranged and proportioned 
both yourself and your author
and I trust your/their instincts.
One day you will swim and I then your ocean
one day my ocean and me the small fish
together we paddle in wonderful
 sand n warm oceans of hope and we
waken to rest and let go no longer
 subject to things we just don't 
and cannot and yet n
need not 
understand
In the vast patchwork of cloth clothing and fabric
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