Archive for the ‘Christchurch’ Category

2024-09-18 – Close to the bone

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

It is what it is.
So, where is truth?
In. what. is.

But all our conceptual
prognostications
lie far from that place.
Revealed, as they are,
through the many ways  
evolution has shaped us.

So, closer and closer
to the bone we must cut,
if we hope to touch the truths
that lie beneath
our evolutionary blindness.

Gallagher
18Sep24
Christchurch

2024-09-22 – What moves around us

Monday, September 23rd, 2024

If you slow your steps,
you can hear the wind
that deals the cards,
with more clarity.

You turn now, empty,
and listen to that
which moves around us
in every moment.

Time and Death
are both there
utterly unaware that we
are caught in their nets.

We move, engaged,
to escape the silences,
while they whisper,
just behind our evasions.

But, in that silence
lies our dance with fate;
its knife-edge of revelation
inescapable and relentless.

Gallagher
22Sep24
Christchurch

2024-09-23 – When the news stops

Monday, September 23rd, 2024

When the news stops
and the light gathers clear,
here, if we pause,
we simply love each other.

And this – while the trees
and the afternoon
enfold us.

And this – regardless
of whether we notice
it or not.

Gallagher
23Sep24
Christchurch