Category Archives: poetry

Turbulence

Posted on August 25, 2017 by anotetohuguette

She walked with a train of midnight-hued crows in her wake, her ear to the wind and the silently growing things, alert to any aberration in her world… There is a sickness creeping over the land, … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged breath, climate change, crows, forest, green, grief, growth, life, light, nature, poetry, shadow, turbulence, wind, yin and yang | 33 Comments

Passenger

Posted on August 11, 2017 by anotetohuguette

Among summer flowers and dark earth I spied a red velvet starfish, an exotic bloom plucked from its ocean home dropped by a careless hand or mother gull upon an unknown world. A world saturated in golden light and still … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged chance, consciousness, dream, fate, flght, garden, human, life, memory, moon, ocean, passenger, poetry, starfish, worlds | 23 Comments

Illusion

Posted on July 20, 2017 by anotetohuguette

I knew the scar was coming and after three opinions, the surgeon was chosen with care, this one less cavalier, instilling a quiet hope that I might still recognize the face in the mirror. As the shiny scalpel cut away … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged fear, healing, illusion, inner beauty, light, love, mirror, my skin cancer journey, nature, power, society, strength, trees, values, wild | 48 Comments

Infinity

Posted on July 7, 2017 by anotetohuguette

A tired stretch of asphalt, outside of time finds itself peppered with glossy machines, sleek, moving fast, their owner’s hearts turned to stone. The needle strewn forest path, outside of time bears witness to the solitary soul seeking solace and pure … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged a billion worlds, balance, breathe, city, consumerism, earth, forest, infinity, life, ocean, peace, precious, sky, solitude, time | 27 Comments

Seven Directions

Posted on June 15, 2017 by anotetohuguette

I find myself in quiet corners capturing wayward lines on discarded napkins or random library slips, realizing there is magic to corral and wrestle upon the blank space – the image of a modern day Pan playing his flute upon the … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged ash, beach, black hearts, direction, enchantment, flute, lies, light, magic, Pan, poetry, revelation, seeking, spells, truth, writing | 13 Comments

Cultivating the Opposite

Posted on May 23, 2017 by anotetohuguette

The dream of living by the sea near a wild forest and ancient mountain range, rose unbidden, colouring the day to day of my long ago high school world. Time has passed unbound, leaving its inevitable brushstrokes and bruised shadows behind, … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged change, childhood, cultivating the opposite, dream, elements, forest, grace, innocence, mountains, paradise, poetry, resistance, sea, time, yoga practice | 15 Comments

Borderland

Posted on April 27, 2017 by anotetohuguette

Centuries of the same tired words reverberate through time, never fraying the seasons and hours of the day parsed out by man nature’s eternal rhythms ignored or manipulated creating monsters in their place, leaving us to cry out, with hearts as … Continue reading →

Posted in poetry | Tagged awakening, borderland, cleansing, desert, digital world, drumming, heart, hidden, lost, nature, nomad, rain, rhythm, spirit, time | 18 Comments