poetry – A Vegan Adventurer

March 8, 2018March 20, 2018aveganadventurer

There is still work to be done

A reminder that today

is for all women.

Not just what those who were born women,

not just those with privilege.

We still need more diversity, inclusion, representation.

There is still work to be done.

May 30, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

“What if…”

Let’s just

let the hounds loose

’round Westminster’s corridors

So they can feel the horror, sure

they’d change their minds quick,

Once they realised how sick

It truly is.

May 6, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

What is more extreme?

Me, and my aggressive septum piercing

extreme almond milk

and radical mascara

(that didn’t blind any Beagles?!)

gently, oh so carefully

ask you,

Leah Mallet, 18 year old beauty therapist from Leeds,

Why did a sticker

horrify you so much?

And actual slaughter

not bother you at all?

May 4, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

“I’m on your team”

When you told me

“I’m on your team”

I believed that

You would not leave, and

I keep reminding myself

that you are the real deal, and

that

you

could stick around.

March 26, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

Happy Mother’s Day

A movement that’s laughed at,

All while we like act that

Throats aren’t slit.

You are unfit

To call yourself an environmentalist,

When really, you’re fundamentalists

In this cult that calls murder

‘lunch’.

March 9, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

A 28 Day Cycle

I am a tentative waterfall who really does know its way after all,

and the warmth of the rocks I flow over, it’s calling to me

Bhrahami invoked; vibrations spill from my mouth and my fingertips.

Mountain strong, legs of supporting stone,

and shoulders of elastic. They carry me forwards.

March 8, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

Falling in love with life again

And I’m not in control.

I know that, but

I feel okay, okay on this roller coaster

with its faulty harness

and its loosening screws

The dark clouds overhead are threatening to

electrify the metal track

and throw us into a darkness.

February 28, 2017March 23, 2017aveganadventurer

When I feel more up to it.

I imagine that I’ll just trim the leaves and blooms that have died, which will make room for new ones to blossom anyway.

It’s not too hard to straighten the sofa throw.

I imagine I’ll do it in a little bit.

February 25, 2017February 28, 2017aveganadventurer

Variable Speed Limit: A Haiku

Fucks sake, I’m trying

To beat my google maps time.

You ruin my drives.

February 22, 2017February 13, 2018aveganadventurer

A good day

And then, you have one of those days where, peace is

everything.

It’s small and quiet and unobtrusive but it’s powerful. Taking up the spaces that are usually raging, and the cracks that are empty and crumbling. It’s not even silence, more a peach wash of warmth. Faintly glowing in the background of a good day.