Enchanted Wood

Enchanted Wood

It's dark here

 

in the enchanted wood

where the trees whisper

through their leaves

telling stories

of the passage of time

Their secrets safe

in swaying branches

Firmly held by

Tall stern trunks

With roots like finger tips,

reaching out

holding on to existence

laying the foundations of life

 

©Diane Hinchliffe 2014

For a while there

For a while there

 

For a while there

I felt a tug of sadness

at the core of my very being

as I make my way away

from the place my soul knows

as home.

Then I take time to reassure

that now is not forever

and soon I will return

And then my heart cries out,

why, why leave this place

that gives shelter to my soul

and I don't know what to say.


©Diane Hinchliffe 2014

 

 

Rainbow Bubbles

Rainbow Bubbles

 

Loneliness strikes

it seems

out of the valley

of nowhere

as do

glistening rainbow bubbles

float by

 

©Diane Hinchliffe 2014

Trapped

Trapped

I wondered how it was

That I struggled in this world

In this rigid box

 

that had become the pattern

 

of my life

And then I noticed that

The space that had been given me

 

was too small

For who I would become

For who I was

© Diane Hinchliffe 2014

 

 

Change

Change



Time flies
Things change
Moving on
What next
What now

Something new
Something old
Something different
Bold

Change stops
staying still

© Diane Hinchliffe 2015