A travel blog made of excerpts from one year spent living in South America. From travel-based stories, to home truths from Chile, to coriander and palta (avocado) recipies. Some poetry, some pictures, some trapeze: this blog will give a flavour of life, loves, losses and politics in Chile and South America.

Saturday 30 August 2008

Gaia was... on pressure and growth

Gaia is.


Gaia is two steps forward and one step back

Slowly getting this show on, right on track

Train picking itself up, slotting back on the rails

Yesterday’s hard bitter blow, today’s bittersweet tales

Yet this record is desperately seeking for a different groove

Mime artist stuck in invisible net, each single move

A laboured languid attempt for some peace from my mind

A reaching out of the frame a new start, yet every time

The frame grows in enepcted dimensions

All discussions taking on the wight of old and new tensions

An attempt at being carfree as the walls close in

No matter the push, this pressure seems to win.

Yet.


Yet I’ve cheerful attitude to my own destruction

Argh. Destruction,l worng word. To the temporary reduction

Of brain and breathing space- although in interesting ways

The pressure squeezes me well- soo I’ll be writing plays

As creativity becomes my outlet. That and learning to fly

Once i've taped my wings back in - i'll be leaping through the night sky

sitting on a trapeze suspended on the stars above

climbing up warpped in bloodred ribbon for a body-glove

suspended by the straps of these muscles- muscles yet tpo grow

yet growth is what i fell each day- in body spirit mind and so

colours get brighter, conviction stronger whilst i burn the midnight oil

weight ever lighter, sky even in sight'as i stretch from the stars to the soil.

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