I spent today planting flowers
Petunias, pansies, spirea, statice

Not Waitsian halloween orange or chimenee red
But green as wise Rosemary
Pink as my desire to remain curious
and as Purple as the disobedient.

I spent today planting flowers
on a tiny balcony
because I needed to feel grounded

and connected.

I have spent years growing others
and more lately staring at digitised screens
to construct meaning.

And I realise now that nothing could be more
sensuous and beautiful
than to stand in the sun
in a light summer dress

willing life into things that are small and nascent.

Future scripts.

About Elaine

Managing partner at Elaine Rumboll and Associates. Adjunct Professor in Leadership Development at Curtin Graduate School of Business in Australia. Previous director of Executive Education at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business, former Dean for Damelin Management School, award winning internationally published poet, blues singer, performance artist. Deeply interested in collaboration, curiosity and co-creation. Winner of the 2010 Business Women's Association Regional Business Achievement Awards in the Professional Category.