Through the gloom
You reach out
To offer light
And energy
Tag: friendship
Gloom ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #336
Reach for me, my friend
From the gloom besetting you
I have light to spare
Friendship ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #332
Celebrate the joy
Shared with friends
On an adventure
Making a meal
Out of life
Rolling onto Shore
An ever presence
Like you my friend
Always there to come to me
Even when I turn away
Perhaps I am your shore
The solid ground
You’ll always find
Always there to welcome you
Even if I’ve turned away
Earth Day
How friendly Earth is
To me and those I love
To all life
But friendship has its limits
The Earth has only so much to offer
So it’s time to be a better friend
Give something back in return
Something a Little Bit Right
My favourite cafe opened up again
Hadn’t had a decent cuppa in over a month
Can’t afford an expresso machine of my own
Just the bodum I picked up at the grocery
The day I also found yeast
Yeast!
Rarer than toilet paper
Rarer than a kiss for a single bloke like me
In this freakin’ pandemic
Anyway, the bodum
If you double the usual amount of grounds
I suppose it’s OK
If you got really good beans
Real dark, the Tanzanian is the best
Ground to the perfect chunkiness
But it ain’t nuthin’ like Frank’s americano
I suppose even if I had an expresso machine
It still wouldn’t be nuthin’ like Frank’s
I dunno
The guy’s magic
And a good guy too
We get on
I’ve followed him around for a while
His fourth cafe in five years
“I get bored if I stay in one place too long”
He told me once
So anyways
I hear the cafe’s opened up again
An’ I rush right out there
I see through the glass
Frank’s on today
Sweet!
I also see inside there’s a bit of a queue
And the tables and chairs are all set out
Lined up tickety-boo
Sparse and empty
Like a display in an upscale furniture store
Every time I walk in here
I get the same tingly feeling up my spine
Heat on the back of my neck
That cringe you get
When you feel like you’re in the wrong place
I like Frank’s last cafe better than this one
It has armchairs and a fireplace
All warm and cozy
Like a family room
I’d hang there for hours
Chattin’ up regulars and whoever
This one’s all artsy as fuck
Greys and blacks
Angular and hard
Not the kinda place you go to hang
I almost always take my java togo
I got no reason to hang
People come here to confer with clients
Whine to their colleagues
About their stock market woes
Suit and tie designer shit
“Aesthetics”
Frank told me once
“Looks over comfort”
“Image over presence”
Ass thet icks
Fuck that shit
Presence & Proximity
Is not a measure of
Proximity
Love
Is not limited in quantity or quality by
Time or space
When Strangers Become Kin
Of brandishing a camera
Amongst a crowd of strangers
Is that someone, always
Steps out of the crowd
Offers an intimate glimpse
Into the nature of their being
In that instant of friendship
The camera records a kind of kinship
Which is eternal and universal
I think every photographer must know
We are all much more alike
Than we are different
Amigos Mundos
It’s the moments spent
With the ones we love
Which make our hearts lighter
The moments better
The living sweeter
Surf’s Up!
Few things seem heartier
Or more profoundly confounding
To the meek
Than a thrill-seeker
Seeking thrills