You're back

You're back. 

You were
so very far
away,
But
we talked
renewed
grew close
and now
you're back
And habits of distance
of yore,
when working
to support you
had driven me mad,
have come
with your return
- and
your lies ...
and I am
so very alone. 

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

Workers! Unite for the Voice!

Workers of yore knew
those who sought together
did better than those
who bucked the tide.

May workers now
whether white or not
remember!

Workers of yore sought
a better deal for theirs
striving against the rich

May workers now
see the striving of others
- the First Peoples of this land,
against the wrongs done to them
by the rich and powerful
and realise others
are where they once were
and unite in the quest
to right a wrong.

Solidarity!

A Voice Now!

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

No, I'm not

Free! Free!!
I'm fr-
- no, I'm not.
Back in chains
am I
- too struck
to scream
or even sigh ...
 

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

Fabled quests

Like Don Quixote
of famed fabled
and infamous quest
- jousting at his windmills,
so too do I
quest after
a famed and,
when absent,
infamous fable:
... sleep

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

The Sentinel

Alone. 

Alone. 

Is tha-
no. 

Alone. 

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

My capsule

Confined to it
my room becomes
my capsule
- my spacecraft
through
whatever is left
of this journey of life
dependent on reports
from the distant realm
outside my
closed curtain ..
is it raining now?
Has it rained today?
Are the trees still there
and also alive?

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)

"FreeForm" mobile phone art

My iPhone mini has an app called "FreeForm", which is apparently supposed to be for graphs etc. I've used it - using my fingers on a mini phone, remember - to do some quick, rough art. The ones I like are below.

 

Copyright © Kayleen White, 2023 (where this date is different to the year of publication, it is because I did the post some time ago and then used the scheduling feature to delay publication). I take these photographs and undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary or artistic merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit and due financial recompense, of course :)