Flying Into The Sun

What made Eve want the apple?
What draws moths to the flame?
Is it just instinct to want what we can't have?
With a garden of fruit before us,
What attracts us toward the forbidden?
Blinding desire, The lure of temptation?
The warm glow of having our own way.

The end result is the same
As flying into the sun.

by Marla Deaton  July 2014

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I am a living map, not finished, not fixed — a coastline learning the shape of its own return.

There are mornings
the compass steadies in my hand,
and I believe I know the road.

On other days
the fog swallows the shoreline,
every direction lost to open water,
and I fumble with a language
I’ve forgotten.

I have spent years
trying to redraw myself
into something easier to foll...

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When I see the day

The day I cried

The day I tried

When I see the way

The way to cry

The way to try

But what about you?

You could be

So much more

I see a castle

In the distance

Inside the world

Beyond the sky

You could be

There in the castle

Maybe you're royalty

Maybe I was wrong

Oh how could I ever tell?

If you try, you could be anything

Fr...

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In fields where blossoms dance with weeds untamed,

The fairest flowers rarely remain.

For when the farmer comes with blade and hoe,

He digs the thorns and burns the trash away

And all that stood too close is lost in flame.

There, no more.

 

 

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This shining city 
And the siren song
Of introspection
Calls me out 
Into crooked evening streets
Free and finding my own feet
Regaining balance

Up winding lanes
Through unkempt parks
And haunted woodland
Night gathers its mass
The further I get from home
Pushing my lungs
To feel the incline

Towards a hilltop
Where I’ve perched before
A hundred soulless Saturdays
A wash of sto...

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There's an old tree

It has issues

The branches are all twisted

The bark looks sickly

But worse than anything

Worse than all

The tree hated everyone

The tree didn't care what happened

If it was this way or that

Humans just keep doing evil things

And the tree is just done with it all

Something it wishes

Is that the man with the axe

Will trip and fail

Always ...

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“Narcissi produce a number of different alkaloids, which provide some protection for the plant, but may be poisonous if accidentally ingested. This property has been exploited for medicinal use in traditional healing and has resulted in the production of galantamine for the treatment of Alzheimer's dementia.” (From Wikipedia)

At last, a medical treatment to preserve the USA’s national treasure ...

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Crypt Copse

don't get lost in the copse or corpse 

tell me what hit — hip dip- -drift pity--pit you live in — is it — mine.

Jist is Zionism-- eats its own Judaist — without time — and fire — pyre — gire — vire — cyre — crossfire — higher — cry and lunges at the wire —-

with wirey desire to kill for you-- hymns sing to him — will dim the

candle— light — plight of now — hitey — astro ...

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A reign of serenity

Breaks the monopoly

Of the monotony

 

A deafening quiet

Eating a diet

Of disturbing riot

 

A relinquished life

Ending the strife

Of the dull cutting knife

 

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Old Father Time, can I go now?

I don’t know how the day drags its heels

And feels its way down the halls

Of shopping malls blindly

To find all is empty and dry

And doesn’t try to hurry itself when needed.

 

Old Father Time, won’t you slow down now?

My furrowed brow aches and throbs

Odd jobs linger and hang around

While you run abound without me

I see you pick the p...

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ARTWORK:  Acrylic on wood by FMF © 2003.

Looking back through my poetry written in 2000: 'The Return of Rainbows’ was conceived at University as a mature-age student bloodied by life’s battles and as always, finding succor in words. My seemingly audacious presence provided lots of fodder to explore the constant challenges and effects of that experience on my life.

The Return
of Rainbows

...

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Shattered heart like broken glass,

I'm still picking up the pieces but I know it won't fix the past,

I want to go back and do it all again,

The struggle doesn't stop and I wish it would end,

I just want to blast off to hyperspace again,

Damn it D.M.T. where are you my friend?

Everyone says that life goes by so fast,

That shit is true and it's kicked my ass,

It felt like it ...

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Stepping away from work
On a weathered wooden chair
Door propped open
In the courtyard
Where leaves swirl
Chasing my thoughts
In the chaotic confines
Of a whirlpool mind

I look up between the buildings
They frame pale blue skies
Collecting clouds
And vapour trails
When will I move on
Grounded too long
Where am I headed
Eyes suddenly wide

We pause and we’re reshaped
We blink an...

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Don't be ashamed of who you are, 
From where you've come or by how far.
Don't be afraid to be yourself,
Or to hide your problems on the shelf.

Don't care about what others think. 
How much you climb. How much you sink.
And don't forget to tell your story. 
But don't cover yourself with too much glory.

Don't lead a life full of deceptions,
Or be too proud to make corrections.
Don't be...

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We're all human 

We all bleed 

We all want to know what its like to feel free 

 

We all feel pain 

We all feel sorrow 

We all know what it's like 

to feel hollow.

 

All of us are stories 

Written in the sand 

Waiting for the tide 

To carry us away 

 

But whilst we are here 

Living on this earth 

We can learn to appreciate each day 

 

Because al...

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Who has never lied? Let whoever hasn’t cast the first stone, as the saying goes. When a human being lies not to protect someone, even though that, too, can be questioned, the situation takes on a different weight. Telling your mother that everything is fine when, in truth, it isn’t, as a way of sparing her emotional strain, especially when she is ill, can be seen as a protective lie, an act of car...

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Ah, I was a very happy child, not because I had everything, but because I was not as afraid as I am today, and the world is always changing, a process that brings both good things and bad.

I was born on March 1st in Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, and from there was supposed to come a number 10 soccer player. Too bad I was not very good at it, the famous “wooden leg” as we say, but ...

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I put my documents inside the suitcase, then organize the neatly folded clothes to make more space, along with the perfume, the comb, my toothbrush, and a book that cannot be left behind. I take everything out again, remembering the weight limit I cannot exceed, otherwise I will be charged extra, something I try to avoid since I am saving money. I organize everything once more; when I check to mak...

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We are all in agreement that big moments play an important role in our lives.

But big moments can be far and in between

Like B-Days, Anniversaries, Graduations, Holidays or the brand new year!

 

The miracle lies in the little moments

We can dream about little moments

Create little moments

Share little moments.

 

A strange thing is that little moments are around us e...

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This ship that I’ve chosen to sail be proven swift and strong.

We’ve weathered much together, she and I.

So many days amidst the wind and storms we’ve travelled long

to cross this mighty ocean here beneath the endless sky.

 

Sometimes it seems that this will be how I spend all my days,

like being tossed at sea is all there is.

It’s hard to hold out faith that there be more...

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Prove them wrong , I know it's hard

you are strong, just drop your guard 

And do the things you never could ,

the things they said you never would ,

cos life's to short to hide away ,

to be too scared to face the day .

So Push yourself through "scary" things 

release yourself from puppet strings ,

that hold you back from living life, 

that make you sad , that causes stri...

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All my history curls 
Like burning paper
Blown over my shoulder
If I go first, just know
There’s a record
All I did was try to capture life
In all its colours
And if you look with generous eyes
I hope you’ll see
My masterpiece...

The cedars tower above 
This final resting place
All the future that once was
Has now been spent
Discover what you’d die for
Then live for it
And if you...

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When objects are transported we take care,

Imprinting the word ‘fragile’ on the box;

So when they are dispatched to who knows where,

They are preserved from damage and from knocks.

 

But when it’s people threatened by our strikes,

We never stick a label on their backs;

Presuming they form part of our dislikes,

We offer no protection from attacks.

 

Perhaps a living pa...

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I dream of my teeth falling out 

One by one as if to relay a prophecy 

A frozen face with a gaping mouth

Through the dead of the night I see

 

Fragments of my grandiose delusions 

Racing towards the sea

Wherein I’ve buried everything I revere in seclusion

Today, the sunk costs float unabashedly just to taunt me 

 

And I have been chasing in vain

Through gritted tee...

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I ended up opening our texts again
A pain, My heart can’t explain
Im trying to hold back my tears —
I might drown with them, I fear

But I just want to know —
why?
Why me?
If you liked her,
Why bother even speaking to me?
Why did you pretend feelings?
Why insult me?
And how could you leave so abruptly?

I hate you.
But I don’t.
I like you.
But I don’t.

It was something I believ...

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The birds sang so loud that they became the music

The twittering echo of summer laced into the chill of winter

And weaved into the warmth of the sun in a tapestry

Of shadow and light, day and night

And dewdrops cling to the grass from the night before

Like a mother to her baby in a hospital ward

A hand to the chest, a mouth to the breast

From breathing to suckling, one body to...

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I am the fool in every fable,

my words cut deep like a knife,

my mind spirals far from stable,

I live an expiring life.

 

Ire has slowly started unveiling itself.

I am scared this is all it's ever going to be.

I am the biggest enemy to myself.

Perhaps irrational but I wish to be set free.

 

I slam doors shut whenever I'm overwhelmed,

in hopes that someone would be ...

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It's all in the mind they say

Hopes and dreams at the end of another day

Clocking in and clocking out is a waster's way to live

We should be thriving and conniving to forge a life of our own

 

It's all well and good 'clocking-in' and 'clocking-out'

But I want to live before time runs out

Watching the clock all day, tick-tocking all the way

What's the point in it all anyway?

...

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The adrenaline rush from roller coasters and tattoo needles

feed the addiction you forgot about. 

The scar on your knee from when Dominique knocked your bike over in ‘95

And the fucked up shit your mom said to you the other day are equally vivid.

 

You heard a song.

You know… That one song by whatshisface?

Made you remember spraying your clothes with febreeze to silence the

...

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It had gone from your eyes when you saw me

The light that used to adore me

It dimmed to a mist in the forest 

Where a canopy of leaves once fell for us

They fell like colourful snow

As we laughed & danced in its flow

 Wondering if we could stay there forever 

Thinking life was full of this splendour

 

But, time came & took you away

And the only thing that I could...

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43 told 33 to stop trying to fix 23

33 told 43 that it’s ok to not be the bigger person all the time

Remember what happened to 28, 29, & 30

They remind 33 that time is precious 

43 agrees

The one thousand days where sunshine was inaccurately predicted

Makes 33 anxious for 43

Because she is just as far away as 23

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I will come and go, Like a scattered drop  against the waves of the ocean. I will blend the light With memories, and be swallowed By what was once my birth. A fleeting shimmer, on the deep's cold breath.

I will leave shattered beliefs,

And flatter the skies with my salt,

Only to merge with the ocean.

Perhaps the path I've paved,

Will be for a moment, unwavered

...

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Watching every movement...
thinking and predicting
Slowly, I started to get carried away
by my thoughts

Deeper and deeper
I started to lose myself
Questioning why all this had to happen
And why did they take up all the space in my mind

And when it got too deep,
It feels like it kills me
I wonder, what's wrong with me
Until I became very quiet

I feel like I lost my peace
I can on...

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Some years ago, I realised

I am the driver of my life

And so I chose light

 

It was a difficult decision

More difficult than it sounds

It’s hard to know what it is to see

When there’s no darkness around

It’s easy to equate pain with feeling

To attach pain to being 

And so I never ran from the dark

I marched towards it

Let it smoke my heart

Instead, it was alw...

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I feel distant from hope

like a soul that is separated

like an empty space

there is only me and uncertain thoughts

 

waiting for the end of the day

but wishing that there was no tomorrow

as if all my dreams are hard to achieve

and slowly my ambition fades

 

I feel like I see someone else inside me

I don't recognize her

little things feel new to me

and death b...

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Wandering slowly down
from Mount Otowa
We’d gotten lost
behind Kiyomizu-dera
in quiet contemplation
of the winding lanes
like night and day
from heaving temple crowds

Rejoining civilisation
the souvenir shops
and chocolate-dipped strawberries
We make our way down
to the Kamo River
with crustless sandwiches
cans of iced coffee
and legs in need of rest

Sitting on the ancient path
...

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The river flows
and we go chasing
the mysteries of living
We’ve been running
through the meadows
of wildflower notions
Tangled up in nothing but
the hunt
To give life meaning…

Beneath the meeting tree
we stand again
warmed by summer rays
It’s here I see you fully
and you truly look at me
We each bare witness
Tangled up in nothing but
the hunt - it is our nature
To give life mean...

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White, with faded freckles
From the sun and at times pale.
Sometimes thick, often frail.

But you cover me,
And protect me from harm.
Receiving scars along the way.

You surround this being
But in the end, you're just skin.
Which I wear with pride.
Only because you're mine..
At least for a very short time.

 

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The dreams we cherish, will they come to be? In perfect worlds, all wishes would align. Yet still I wonder, as I search to see, What life will bring, and how it will define. The storms may rage, yet in their swirling mist, I catch a glimpse of light that leads the way. Each answer seems elusive, hard to grasp, But still I hope, and keep my fears at bay. Though answers fade, my hope w...

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I ask for a lot some times
and end up crossing a few lines 
I can be hard to understand
In front of you, A riddle I stand

I may play ‘hard to get’
I’m glad you didnt give up yet
I sometimes ghost you all day
So thank you for loving me anyway

~h.

 

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You barely uttered “ I love you”  on your way out,

And I hardly call that a kiss, we only skimmed each other’s lips,

Whenever I upset you, does a piece of me in you break off until there’s nothing left? 

Did your words "I'll always be yours" lose its meaning over a spat? 
 

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What is it that I leave behind?
Echoes that proclaim I was here?
Growing ever more faint in time.
Why do I crave acknowledgement
That my time was well spent here?

I send out my voice.
The wind carries it where it will.
But I ask myself what matters more..
A legacy that lives on into the future
Or that I live... where I am right now.



Written April 2025

 

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In a world where the tiniest details make all the difference, the angle of a single water molecule holds the key to life itself. 104.5° explores how this subtle bend shapes the oceans, the blood that flows through our veins, and the very essence of existence. A sonnet of life, water, and the perfect imperfection that sustains us all. When nature bent her hand to shape the dew, She cu...

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On Mondays, “Magician”
feels like the answer
On Tuesdays, Maybe a teacher?

Wednesdays, I think of willy wonka—
in my mind, a chocolate factory I see
and decide “He’s the one I want to be”

3 days of dreaming weren’t enough so,
Travellers intrigue me on Thursdays,
and Firefighter is an idea of Fridays

But at the end of the day, its tiring
being indecisive, and living off steam
But I...

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It made me sad when I saw him there.

 

Beaten and bruised as he carried it. 

 

No one helped him.

 

No one cared. 

 

He hadn’t hurt anyone, yet they hated him.

 

He hadn’t stolen anything, yet they despised him.

 

All of this made no sense to me.

 

Why was a man who was faultless being punished?

 

Why was a man who healed and renewed life to people g...

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By day he played the markets;

At night he played the fool.

In youth he would play truant,

To get away from school.

 

In common with those round him,

In life he played a part:

A tragic, gilded aesthete

Who suffered for his art,

 

The tough, self-made financier,

Who played for all they’re worth

The hapless types endowed with

A silver spoon from birth,

 

...

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Each path we walk, it forges something,

a step within a stair.

A line part of a rhythmic pattern

and we’re unaware.

 

We’re so wrapped up in what’s before us,

like it’s all there is.

As back and forth we pace, uneasy.

I promise you this -

 

The time will come when you will see,

the scales will disappear.

In that moment look around you,

it will all be clear.

...

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Is it me? Is it real?
The feelings that I feel…
never seem to match 
the world around me.

What if I’m lost in time,
wrapped up in some sublime 
cosmic poet’s next attempt 
at melancholy?

I don’t ever feel at home,
most times would rather be alone. 
I’m broken, yeah I know
cuz I don’t change things. 

Maybe I’m just out of place,
running long in the wrong race,
or maybe I’m no go...

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I spent my whole life building.

I saw it all, yeah ups and downs.

Started from nothing, God knows I did it all,

and brought this empire from the ground.

 

For generations I have toiled to build,

each passing year my empire’s grown.

I barely slept, I had to see it done,

and claim this empire as my own.

 

And I was proud to stand and see it all,

it was a brilliant si...

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Does it matter what you do

or matter what you say?

 

Does anything mean anything

when you live Groundhog Day?

 

Is there a way to please the Gods

so that they’ll let you go?

 

Or maybe there’s no point at all.

Perhaps it’s just a show.

 

But what else can you do

if you find you’re stuck in this scene.

 

You have to just keep going

and hope you will f...

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