Every month I tweet #MicroPoetry! In 140 characters, they are part prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. I look forward to sharing them with you and hope that they may lead to reflection, musing and perhaps even discussion!

Mirror Facing
How shall I walk with u?
Listen or speak?
Preach or share?
Will I allow myself 2 b changed
or shall I endeavour to make u, me?

Cold bites to core
Chill numbs fingers’ flex
At margin’s edge
frigid twilight embraces
Though hibernation tempts
May hearts warmly respond

Momentary respite arrives
Clenched thaw unfurls
Sol sundog mirrored
Into the reprieve we walk
With eyes open
May we see abounding wonder

Poet’s verse of joy & loss
etches lives dressed
with fatigue & vibrancy
Into each stanza
as untold stories
already written
we step

Towards Sabbath pause
distractions abound
Bites of sound
ringtones & email
With deep breath drawn
Know you are allowed
to simply Be
to Shine

Many experiences
abundant information
doesn’t wisdom’s dawn ensure
Reflection’s nurture:
whence we come
to see where we r
& where we might b

Poetry subverts words
Adds nuance
bodies speak
but ears miss
Poetry reveals potential
prose obscures
We r each a line
in an unfolding stanza

Politicians posture
Performers pose
& still terran torture teems
As long as our
story separates solidarity
Creation cries caution

Art dances
through halls & walls
Creativity inspires
the server
& served
How does
the Muse
touch you?
What creation
are you becoming?

Loneliness’ embrace
obscures Hopes’ light
Despair’s touch
tempers Care’s bid
For all who know the dark night
May we – with vigil – wait

In cracked concrete
Laughter ushers
amidst refuse’s purchase
Human dignity
arises in bleak boxes
Spirit flies & Wonder unfolds

Into despair’s midst
we are called
Claiming
neither rhyme
nor reason
Into despair’s midst …
to witness tears
to hear lament
to be care

We are the Light
for which we long
We are the hand
that we hope
will be extended
In the temptation
of apathy
know we are
change’s spark

Justice driven passion
Illumines opaque systems
Questions law’s scripters
Where privilege veils inequality
who shall be her voice?

#BellLetsTalk
May the stigma
attached to mental illness
be replaced by compassion and care
for all who seek
balance & wellness

Then might not be Now
but it begins Here
Hope is grounded
in the possible
Your imagination
sets the stage
for tomorrow’s
today

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