another poem – short, and most rewarding.

Hotel view
I look out of the window,
at the vista of skyscrapers,
framed by the beach,
and the setting sun.
so cramped,
these lives of others
trapped in their units,
some don’t see the beach at all.
I step out,
on to the balcony,
and listen to the life far below,
and smell tropical flowers
their perfume is relaxing me.
on the far horizon,
there is a storm,
dulled by [...]

For Gail

For Gail
I remember seeing a girl,
standing at the taxi rank,
she looked upset,
like she had missed something.
I recognised her.
I went up to her,
asked if she was alright,
asked if she wanted to share a cab,
and we went back to belconnen together.
We went to the boardroom,
a nice old haunt of mine,
she had a liqueur in a chocolate cup.
I [...]

Social Media Faux Pas

I have been described as a full on kind of person. If I start using a social medium like Facebook, Twitter, etc, I am over the top in my hunt for friends, connections, hell, I even tweet at home at 3.00am.
I recently committed a cardinal sin, on twitter, by DM’ing a person that I really didn’t [...]

whilst I cannot sleep….

I am waiting, yet again for the pain killers to kick in. and they aren’t.
So, while I am waiting, I thought I would chuck in some pomes. I know, that isn’t how you spell it….
summer storm
I am sitting on my chair, in the backyard,
watching the storm roll slowly over the mountains.
watching the sunset get obscured [...]

Talking about the Weather

For some reason, as i get older, my predictive powers are increasing. I have an uncanny knack to be able to look at the day, see the weather pattern and know whether it is a dry or wet day ahead. I have been pretty accurate re the recent dust storms. Yesterday, I was certain that [...]

Jaded. In Moderation.

I have been put into moderation on one of the forums that i post on. I don’t like being in moderation. I don’t think anyone does. I did not swear or break any of the forum rules, but i did make a couple of glib comments, and that was enough. Into moderation i went. I [...]

One nation. Of Diversity

I have noticed a blog about the banning of head wear and other clothes that muslim women wear. the person who has written it was, in my mind, an educated and intelligent person. Until this post.
Now, I have no right as a man to tell a woman what to wear and when. It is their [...]

so much info, so little brain capacity…

I am learning about all these new products every day. they are exciting, and new updates happen everyday. what happens when I cannot remember something I learned today in a week’s time? I will be taking notes, using reminders in my calendar to be able to recall the info. There is a lot of stuff [...]

I am now starting to forget things. A lot of things.

I don’t know if it is stress, tiredness or a combination of both, or something entirely different, but i seem to be forgetting things. Stuff I have no problem remembering a week ago have now gone completely.
And I am getting worried. I forgot of all things, my doctor’s appointment, which happens but once every 6-months, [...]

Whoops!

My mother has returned to the retirement capital of Sth Australia (victor harbor) to find that she had a nasty cough, a barking, whooping one. The docs thought she had legionnaires disease. the drugs that she had to show ID for didn’t do much, and she phoned me this morning to advise that she and [...]