Natural Medley

13 September 2021

A to Z poetry challenge 2021 - D

Drs are like light bulbs

in a dark hallway

leading the way with hope

shining light on the scary

dark parts of life

helping you see them

from another angle

my Dr is a trusted friend

who has walked beside us

year by year

gently

8/9/21

12 September 2021

A to Z poetry challenge 2021 - C

caressing the edge

of a coffee cup

or a baby’s cheek

within your hand

fitting so perfectly

the sublime sweep

of a mountain road

or the shape of a bay

all the subtle secrets

within a shell

curves are so seductive

7/9/21

11 September 2021

A to Z poetry challenge 2021 - B

Breath

it echoes beside my bed

as I sleep

pants just behind

my running feet

is medicine

as I sit on the mat

exchanging air

with trees

works hard as bellows

powering my voice

giving me grace

to sing

and finally

as I come to the end

my last breath

is carried on the wind

6/9/21

10 September 2021

A to Z poetry challenge 2021- A

Greetings all.

As a way of encouraging me to write I started a new A to Z of poetry. Here is “A”. One down, 25 to go!

Floating

High above the road

Small, compact

But also grand

Stunning view

Across the land

Cosy space

Our apartment

5/9/21

30 June 2021

BeautyScope 457: City dance

sitting in my treehouse bedroom

watching the traffic dance

as it swishes

and sways

around corners

seeing the skatepark ballet

of courage

and near misses

gazing for hours

at the tiny construction ants

as they pull a building

from the ground

I feel privileged

beyond measure

to have this life

28/6/21

18 June 2021

Green eyes

Recently I discovered my dark brown eyes

Are partly green

How has this happened?

Have they faded with age

Or have I become more aware?

Once I went to an eye appointment

Where he photographed my eye

And exclaimed in amazement

At it’s beauty

So maybe my eyes hold surprises

As a consequence

I find myself being drawn

To wearing more green

Which was never a favourite

I was a blue girl

But now my blue is skewing to teal

And turquoise

Moving through bottle green

And landing in olive

I have been dealing lately

With a lot of thoughts about death

And life

And I find this green obsession

Fits nicely

Draping myself more and more

With the colour of life

As I prepare myself

To become more intimate

With nature

With the earth.

19/6/21

And here I am with my dark green eyes, wearing olive green in my new haircut!

Til next time,

Keep on creating!

Lots of love,

Jazzy Jack

3 June 2021

A Foraging Life

Greetings friends!

I return to regale you with some of my foraging experiences.

Recently I’ve been reading a fascinating book from the library called ‘The Foraged Home’.

Where people regularly forage the natural world for items to decorate their homes.

Even down to foraging for seaweed and making beautiful artworks. (Seems like a cold job!)

It’s made me realise how much this is a natural style for me. Others might laugh at my lack of knowledge of myself. As a I look back on all my experimenting with dye and my collecting of leaves and feathers.

Here are some photos of my experiments and my collecting.

In our current house we have a wall behind the kitchen which I’ve decorated with random leaves and feathers collected on walks.

I made a little hanging artwork out of feathers which was going to be the first of many and I was going to place them in the trees in the park during Winter to delight passers by. I only ever made one and I liked it too much to let it go. So it now hangs on my buffet door.