Writing

Words

Glimmer

Woven 

Threads

Tumbling

To life

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Ally's Voice

How do I find my voice?

Each word I speak

A grain of sand

Picked up on the wind

Lost in the noise

How do I find my voice...

Workplace change

Welcome to ...

Change is constant

Embracing

Planning

Agility

Transmitting

Evolving

Repeating

Change is coming

Unease

Anticipate

Vacuum

Rumours

Change has arrived

Fight

Flight

Freeze

Change is here

Circling

Present

Fought

Flown

Frozen

Acceptance

Change has passed

Change is constant...

Burnout

Loaded down 

Pushed around

Feeling the pinch

From week to week

Washed out 

Struggling through

Withdrawn

Struggling to engage

Sitting in the wilderness 

Amongst the rubble

Brought down

By uncontrolled changed

Need to connect

Collectively find strength

Stand up and be countered

Find our voices to face down

The next tide 

Rushing our way

~ Written in response to what many, including myself, are feeling in the workplace. Inspired by those in my Union who give me strength by all they do for others.

Remixed with one of my photos 

Tweeted https://twitter.com/ally_cat/status/1512615155167010819

Flickr https://flic.kr/p/2nddDhQ

Politics

Take your negativity & throw it away Show me your policies & how you'll change lives Tired of word games I'm over the lies #poem #politics


Originally posted on Twitter

Take your negativity
& throw it away
Show me your policies
& how you'll change lives
Tired of word games
I'm over the lies#poem #politics

— Allison Brown (@ally_cat) July 22, 2016

Dreamscape

 

Sailing amongst a dreamscape Drifting gently upon each breath Hoping the sandman lets me stay

Inspired by

https://twitter.com/YourMoonliness/status/1434998492296925188

Autumn Sonnet 2.0

Drawn to your illuminating allure

Made of amber hues dancing in the light

Twirling and swaying in fiery grandeur

Turning, floating, falling as you take flight

While you steal the warmth and breath from my world 

Life turns to brittle pieces of decay 

As more diamond flecked blankets are unfurled

Darkness continues to swallow the day

The misty grey brims with an oozing chill

Then your mood swings arc back to startling blues

Amongst the dampness I inhale my fill

Of the beautiful starkness drifting loose

Spiral circles from beginning to end

An expected cycle both foe and friend

Armidale Autumn Tree

(Note: This poem was written a while ago as part of a series of pieces describing the four seasons, after a friend challenged me to write a sonnet.)

Summer Sonnet 2.0

The warmth you radiate pulls me to your embrace 

Your light lingers mingling in everything

Even as the ebb of time dictates you race

In this moment there is no doubt you are king

Out of your divine dynasty morsels are born

Providing feasts of tastes and textures so sublime

While this growing banquet ripens into a storm 

We reach the pinnacle where your supreme reign shines

From within your heart a chorus of music flows

This kaleidoscope of senses ensnares us all

A stretching canvas washed in strokes and shades of blues

With overwhelming beauty bringing forth our fall

Yet a truth remains as you hold others at bay

Your glowing heat so loved will have to end one day