She will explore you in the way that only a lover of words knows how. Savouring each delicious syllable of your name as it rolls lightly across her tongue. Testing a hundred different adjectives to describe the exact shade of your eyes as they glimmer in autumn sunshine. She caresses your skin with inky fingertips, …
I want to know what kind of man you are beneath the surface. I want to understand what makes your heart beat faster and what you love. What makes you mad, and why it has that power over you. I want to learn if your anger is hot and quick like mine, or a lingering …
My life will never be the same again. From the moment that each of you enter my world, red faced and squalling, I understand this. My life will be filled with much more colour, love and laughter for having you bound excitedly into my family picture frame—all messy handprints, cute freckles and wild hair. Our dance through …
Sometimes I walk in the shadows between dreams and waking, letting the light of my imagination burst forth from the grey nothing, into fireworks of vivid ruby and emerald. I am endlessly amazed by the power of the unbound mind, where freedom and creation dance a fiery seduction, forever one step ahead of where dull …
I wake with the light as it dances delicately through the thatched roof onto my face. The morning air pervades our hut invitingly and I long to throw back my blanket to feel the fresh sea breeze on my skin. I am hot and feverish from the nightmares that trouble my sleep. In them, you …
The sounds of summer drift lazily over our back fence like smoke. Children laugh and splash in paddling pools, squealing, cold water on hot skin, lawns flooded, warm mud squelching between small toes. A lawnmower hums bee-like in the distance, and the smell of fresh cut grass hangs in the hazy air. I breathe …
‘One photo madam, just one photo.’ Another day in India. This particular morning finds me at the Taj Mahal, enthralled in the splendour of the marble dome shimmering gently in the reflecting pool. The heat pursues me relentlessly as I shade my eyes against the cloudless sky. I feel peaceful here. No one knows …
She sits alone with pain and listens to her heart song. Its echoes in her soul, subdued these days, unused to being heard over the din of her ordinary life. It speaks of brilliant waterfalls that splash turquoise-hued rainbows over the world and make it new again. It tells of enchanted forests, where life flourishes, …