Tag: friendship

Mermaid Dreams

This is a collaboration with Michele Lee inspired by our shared love for the nature and friendship. I adore Michele’s work and recently read her novela Her Costal Cottage. If you haven’t already read Michele’s work, pay a visit to her blog My Inspired Life, I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I have been.

Image by oneinchpunch

A playground first encounter
two shy girls found each other

A friendship bonded by quiet giggles and thousand smiles

Best Friends Forever sealed with a pinky swear
while painted toes pressed into the pearly sand

Promises made when forever was cloaked by the misty gray fog, carrying the secrets of unknown tomorrows

falling gently on their straw hats and small hands busy adding broken shells to their sandcastle kingdom

where two mermaids could live
when they weren’t underwater exploring

The crystal blue above and the deep turquoise below
blending, swallowing shadows and fragile castles

as two little girls left the beach,

side by side skipping, singing, and hand-holding

half buried, a red bucket and spade forgotten

Friendship to me represents endless happy moments spent on the beach.

We Are Back at Where We Were

Clifton Garden, Mosman, Sydney, Australia

Memory of you running in full force all the way to the end of the jetty, leaped in the air holding your knees, gravity sank you in the reflection of the cloudless sky, stayed with me.

You packed up and left for the concrete jungle city life. Many nights, I listened to your voicemail messages, with deafening clubbing music, slurry speech, and lots ‘I love you, Silly’.

You missed my wedding, my 30th birthday party, my brother’s funeral and my divorce party. I didn’t know how to stay friends with you. You’d never there for me like you used to when you were here.

Every time I sat here, I looked at the jetty, remembering all the laughter,all the time we spent together, wondering what had gone wrong.

Now I am sitting here, with you by my side. I still haven’t had an answer. In my frail voice, I ask, “Why did you leave me and never came back all these years till now?” You wrap me tighter in the shaw and hold me closer, “Because I love you, Silly.” I still don’t quite understand, but I am glad you are back here with me in my last days. My heart is full again.

Understanding

Under different skies
rain threads them together

In different storylines
Characters sing to their minds

Writers write
Dreamers dream
Lovers love

They have found shelter
by knowing that
they exist

Friendship

We switched off
left the city chaos
drove miles
to share the hope
of a sunrise

We needed a group hug
and the comforting arms
of a rising sun

Friend in Need

This is a collaboration with J.

Let me crawl in your blue sweater
Curl up in your grey couch
Fill this empty air with a fragrant coffee
And the simple sound of your acoustic guitar
Sit with me in my sadness
and love me as I am

I love you as you are
with cloudy eyes of pain
Harmonise your breathing
with a song
Humming in nothingness
We’ll wander without aim
My shoulder
where your soul’s laid bare
Your heart
tended with care

Poetic Kisses

on my birthday
you blew kisses
across the neon sky
they fell like poetry
into my hands

I slipped them
in my jeans pocket
keeping them
for comfort
on sad days

It’s Not Meant to Be

We don’t need much encouragement to ignite a thousand fireflies.
Talking about the weather is our way to keep the ambience lukewarm.
People talk about chemistry or destiny.
Though we both know that it’s the knowing which only dreamers know; the touching which only lovers fathom.

We don’t need much encouragement to spread a wild fire.
Being silent is what we can master to mask the need.
People talk about soul mates or twin flames.
For us, it’s just two people happily know each other but never feel the need to meet.

We don’t need much encouragement to burn up heaven.
Leaving without saying goodbye is the only way that we survive from each other.
People talk about love and affair.
We know too well that we choose neither.


So it’s just like we said it would be, forever perfectly perfect.

Before Sunrise

Long Reef lookout, Sydney, Australia


I watch these two
before Sunrise

Knowing my father
values my son’s company
more than the glorious sun
He is an old man
seen many sunrises

My son
for the first time
experiences the magnificence
of a new day
with his favourite person

I love watching sunrise
But my eyes
cannot move pass
the love between them
They are worth
missing the sunrise for

Imaginery Dialogue

She said
I fear I’m destined to be my own anchor from now on

I said
You’ll have to have pointed legs

She laughed
Well, I’m a ballerina afterall

I cheered
I know you have it in you

Summer Holiday

Thirroul Beach, NSW Australia

You used to live by the sea
free like a dandelion
wild like a daisy field

I drove the winding roads
with the car windows down
let the summer sun bite my arm

We picked seashells
like little kids
buried each other in hot sand

We dipped Tim Tam biscuits
in black tea with soy milk
read books to each other

We curled up by the campfire
listened to James Blunt
ate barbecued marshmallows

That was the summer holiday
I spent visiting you
before you left the sea