Salt and Influence

 “Some salts do not hide from water, nor dissolve within it; one truly sovereign does not hide from influence, nor bend to it.”

Know Yourself

 "Know yourself or no one else will."

Thoughts Traversing

by Dewayne Allday
6 May 2026

Thoughts, ideas and emotions

flow like water traversing 

a still and rocky mountainside

as the winter ice recedes

into spring warmth and beauty,

as the temperature increases

each step, each mile downward

until spreading flat and wide

as it feeds the roots of the

flowers, trees and so forth,

creating a living skirt,

around the mountain base -

a breathing perimeter,

a living symbiosis,

giving sustenance,

giving abundance,

giving life itself,

to those in need;

Nourishing the seeds

of the next generations.

Flourishing to precede

a new spring's creation.

Grow and Flow

by Dewayne Allday
28 April 2026

Sometimes we need opposites
to help us grow.
Sometimes we need similars
to help us flow.

We need seasons
to dice it up.
We need reasons
to fill our cup.

We need a cry
to feel ourselves.
We need a “bye”
to bleed ourselves.

Sometimes we need opposites
to help us go,
and we need similars
to help us show,

that we are alive…
and not alone…

that we are alive…
and not alone.