Category: poetry
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Waa
What we are about to become, dancing with the shadow of what we used to know about ourselves What we are not answering, looking for the beautiful question that refuses to rush our seasonality What we are withdrawing from, finding another ground from which to see and step into the unknown What we are transforming, Read more
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In dialogue with life
Walking on thin air blind to your own regeneration you cannot see the path Walking on thin air losing sight of your meaning searching your house of belonging Walking on thin air freed by your suffering found, harvesting its presents Walking on thin air youthful revelation at the cliff of grief and celebration Walking on Read more
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Imagination
Imagine Imagine colouring outside the lines Imagine shape shifting until the lines are no longer Imagine mark-making by way of connecting Imagine dissolving Imagine a river alive Imagine an ancestor you could be Imagine ideas matter collectively Imagine you’re more water than land Imagine you are flow Imagine following your edge Imagine tree is river Read more
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Miracle
The miracle that life is Something sitting on the edge of the appreciation of life and grief of its loss A very fine line that only a funambulist could master the balance of Without falling on either side, of hope or gloom The balancing act might be the work that keeps us alive The dance Read more
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Soft star
Poetry mine, photo credit: Sam Rye. Read more
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new forms
Playing with haiku-photo forms today. Photos are mine, taken in Tasmania, except for the beautiful Aotearoa skies, by Sam Rye. Read more
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Light
Physics of Life Becoming life what you already are Becoming what is measured photons of light Becoming scattered when you hit matter Becoming what is when observed Flowing through darkness unnoticed For light depends on other to be seen How are you feeling? Universally calm Ordinary Un-fooled Humoured Passing through Light Read more
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Liberation
Liberation Listen to your body Where wisdom lies Where truth is known Attune to your freedom You are enough You have enough Resist Rest, unlearn Slow down, say no Lean into your humanity Widen the healing portal Acknowledge what was stolen Care through the opening of your heart Liberate your community through your falling in Read more
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Doubt
Can Can I write this morning and the next Can the birds sing and grow their nest Can I find alignment in my spine Can the sun every morning rise and shine Can I ignore the noise all around Can the river be without its sound Can I go on when the flow seems lost Read more
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We are
We are Hungry for life Rainforest, teeming Beautiful and ferocious We are Ignorant, with knowledge Awake at night Hoping to be wrong We are Nature, with rights Displaced from culture Colonised, with institution We are Destruction at scale The unacceptable acceptance Of a shifting baseline We are Learning to live with fire And saltwater in Read more