Today I watched over the fjord counting the years since I fell into the ocean of your loving. Captivated, as the water in fathoms immeasurable, between sculpted cliff and boulder, leaning shoulder to shoulder, like the hours and days passing. Keepers of memory and time, these ancient guides, scribe watermarks indelibly in their sides. Adrift … Continue reading Today I watched over the fjord
Author: francescacairns
I am an Australian writer who lives in North West lutruwita/Tasmania
Drawn back to the café
Drawn back to the café my friend smiles, welcoming. And I am reminded of those who trust in the thread of tangibility that defines my life line. Who take what I cannot see and reflect with angles, subtle and unexpected, the nature of my presence on their path.
Crazy it feels
Crazy it feels, as if we seek the same yet for you… from this man… for another And I? I would be with you. Feel you feel me then ache as you turn away again.. Talking concessions, Grieving already the limitations you’re finding. For whose sake? this compromise, this complicity of hearts. And mine? Too … Continue reading Crazy it feels
Whispers
Love whispered its promise in my ear, lingering, as though with longing echoed. Trailed its fingers across my body, through my resistance into my heart. Teasing with the touch of delight, the thrill of possibility… and fled.
Weighing the words
Weighing the words I might whisper into the darkness would I measure their worth on scales of time, of depth, of intensity? Or would their very weightlessness set the measure of the freedom that has graced my soul with your presence.
Weighing the words
Sometimes
Sometimes, when the goddess smiles we are showered with keys mystic and unpredictable. Light from within entices, illuminates. Takes me, sweeps me beyond known trails. Till you are she, and I am no longer adrift.
Inspiration and motivation… the genesis.
From a young age books and stories were the magical garden of my imagination. As a child in the soulless Melbourne suburban landscape of the sixties they provided seeds of new thinking planted deep into the textures of lives and times beyond my physical realm. And roam them I did with a hunger for a … Continue reading Inspiration and motivation… the genesis.
Francesca Cairns 