Category: poetry
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Bird song
Bird song creating culture in relationship with place One generation to the next making meaning through movement Instruments of change tuning from dawn unaware of their dancing with the winds every step contributing to the universal music present in the past and future flapping of their wings Their flight, emergent every-when at once, fill the Read more
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Unbound
Invitation A soft animal coming out of its den at its own rhythm A gentle bird sitting on a branch not quite ready to sing A flower blooming in the sun yet to find its own fragrance A lake at the bottom of your surrender well A power that moves through and expands you Until Read more
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grey lorikeets
Some days, rainbow lorikeets are grey The clouds cannot see them for their colours Only loud shapes moving So many of them have come before None of their songs are new Day after day chirping Anxiety creeps in for all the inefficiencies For all the missed connections That could have saved time and lives In Read more
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Finding infinity
Swimming between the lines of detachment and entanglement So far on the journey, you are back to the starting point where your boundless love both includes and doesn’t include you where your love and pain have found infinity in your heart where your body sings: never mind where you rise and fall and twist and Read more
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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