in a slow return

a poem for slow returns / simplicity / journeys back to self

in a slow return, simplicity

you’ll learn.

from time to dwell

in the depths

of your own nature.


a path appears,

life beckons —

to lay her moss

upon the shudder

of what has been.


she sent you to bathe

in the rhythmic waters

of deep time. she sent

a place for heart, space

for mind.

unknown artist / just loved this imagery / contained and held in chrysalis /

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a poem i wrote last year. the imagery of “life” as a personified force, beckoning closer a wounded being, that has seemingly strayed far from themselves and their life, to lay her nutrient rich moss upon, wrap them up in space and time, is an image that i enjoy and find soothing.

it’s a reminder to me that returning to simplicity when things feel complex, is often the way. tending to the roots, to the waters, to the foundations, from here, and with the stabilisation of mind and heart, we can begin to walk the path back to “closeness”, to self / soul / world.

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unknown artist / take time with the natural world & get clear /

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“The world cannot ruffle the dignity of a soul that dwells in its own tranquility” —

John O’ Donohue