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A Poet’s teaching:
In clamouring cultural cacophony
silence soothes
In disdain’s dogmatic display
compassion counsels
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Saturated land weeps
Drowned seed withers
Harvest hope hobbled
May earth’s stewards
know care & gratitude abundant
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Forget & Forgive
Fragments from former fractures
One denies memory
One healing potential
May we step with intention
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History’s teaching
spirals from the unknown
to discernible patterns
In order’s recognition
Wisdom is born
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Wonder is born in awe
& curiosity perceives things anew
Eyes spy a threaded weave
embracing diversity’s spectrum
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Sullied secrets seethe
Abuse avoided accumulates
In places where darkness seeps
May truth sow safe space
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Shunned & Judged
Ridiculed & Bullied
Realities true
Realities oft avoided
May all who see
stand in the way
& be Light
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Leadership:
speaks through listening
Mentorship:
humility tempers ego
Discipleship:
compassion extends boundlessly
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The Poet weeps
as we weaponise words
& militarise metaphor
Yet She pens
a new poem
in variant meter
called ‘Choice’
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Words rationalise
Words recriminate
Yet children die
Mothers weep
When violence ferments
Peace’s choice dawns
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Reaching in darkness
stretching through humus
green shoot breaks horizon
rising
reaching
soon colour will blaze
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Angry voices
threatens to overwhelm reflection
Agenda positioning
threatens to overwhelm listening
May compassion
guide difficult choices
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Inevitably we’re Left Behind
Those we’ve loved & loathed go beyond
& in our loss we learn from or limit their legacy
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Life’s signature
broadcast from bound elements
to colour reflecting starlight
in rainbow cascades
is wonder inspired
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Screen flickers
Images horrendous shock
Tears long to fall
Hands reach to hold
Into the maelstrom
may we walk
confident in the
Light we bear
Your reflections are most welcome!