Martin Shone's Blog

There’s a new book out soon. Hopefully before the end of October, or earlier! I won’t say too much apart from the fact that I’ve been writing it on and off since 1999 and that it’s a novella of a little over 30,000 words. I’ve had one proof copy and been editing the manuscript for … More New book on the horizon!

When you see a bird soaringwhat is it you see,flying feathers, moving skyor movements of mind? When you wade into the oceanwhat is it you feel,chilled skin, soft underfootor softness of mind? When you climb to the highest peakwhat is it you know,breathless scenery, free spaceor freedom of mind? Is it a reality? Or is … More Why can’t we?

Way up beyond the blue is where candles are madethe ones that flicker within usthe ones that shine through usthe ones that melt away. We are but a waxwork of imaginationthought up by a dying light needing something to burn. We are flickering in our many guises of waxen dolls. Molten bodies mix easily in … More be the one

We are never alone, even when we feel broken, when our solitude hurts, for there is always a remembered presence of a feeling from a moment when we were touched by another’s soul whose feathers, broken as they were, became a warm seed of healing inside us, almost as if, by being damaged, they released … More Broken wings

How small are we to believe we are any bigger than the ant, restrained as we are in our belted psychology of belief thinking because we are what we are we have the right to trample, for we do trample, upon the lesser creatures (humans included). How small are we to believe we are anything other … More How small are we?

Sometimesdeath can arrive when you least expect itand you look upon it asan imposible momentthat shouldn’t be thereyet there it iswaiting for youto show youwhat it looks like And it looks like,life You hear, feelyour heart beatas the rain once did Silenceis the other witness,the silence of the dark, cold, moment And it feels like,life … More And it feels like, life

The heart of wisdom is in all things. If we want to learn, if we want to be better, if we want knowledge then we must allow the things we want to approach us freely and without force of thought or pressure of desire, for wisdom begins, as the oak begins, in moments of pure … More The heart of wisdom is in all things