Noticing

I’m not posting as much as I intended to.

I apologise.

If you want more, tell me.

Otherwise I will let this flow as it flows.

As it comes and goes.

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There is much going on. Moving house, moving country. Things demanding my attention, visas, selling things, giving things away, what to take what to leave. My default position is leave everything, only take what’s needed. Give everything away that I can. Things that once meant something to me, mean nothing to anybody else.

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From my mat

Noticing

Watching the world as if it were a movie

Watching my thoughts in the same way

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Life is poetry

your life is poetry

all you have to do is look

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Notice life without putting yourself at the centre of it

Life becomes poetry

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Things I noticed yesterday

Rain against a windscreen

Night falls

An orange streak across a wide horizon

Headlights glaring

My granddaughter tired and crying in the back

After six hours driving

Gravel

Fresh air

A pink bicycle lying on the grass

A lizard

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Every moment is poetry

Everything

if you just take time to notice

Without using the word me

Or I

Or saying how you feel about it.

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It is only your feelings

That prevent

Everything

being

beautiful

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All the problems of the world

Are caused by people

Having an opinion

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All opinions

Points of view

Drawn from how we were educated

Or trained

Or programmed

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All the beauty of the world

Is made grey

By your

Uncontrollable

Thoughts

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Refuse to take part

When someone says

I wish it was a sunny day

I wish it was warmer, or colder, I wish I had more money

I wish I had a better car

I wish

I wish

I wish

Refuse to take part

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Today the rain is beautiful

This simple food is healthy

To walk to work is freedom