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!

Swords & scabbards
Holsters & guns
From power’s vantage
ideology & wisdom
tensely sit
May all who lead
be tempered
by peace’s whisper

Fat Tuesday revelry
slips toward journey
Amidst gaiety & solemnity
invitation beckons
As we move toward 40
to what will you listen?

Longing for predictability
the unexpected happens
Planning for security
risk taking arises
Between
safety & chaos’
pause
wonder invites

Even as Wonder
dazzles & awes
it clarifies & inspires
Wonder is miracle bound
in each moment
mundanely sparkling
in the everyday

Season’s pause
From white chill
to green lush
Upon child’s palm
frozen crystal
reflects light’s mantle
Wonder’s pause
on thaw’s cusp

Kindle that which inspires you
Nurture that which feeds you
Nourished by illumination
be a light for the Other
aspire to awaken the Stranger

As times change
name fears
Stepping into unknown
invoke courage
Where we are going
depends on stories retold
What do you remember?

In aching
we sit with those who suffer
In loss
we walk with grief
In lament
we listen to anger
In our brokenness
may we heal with the Other

In exile we walk
torn between worlds
community longing
individually inculcated
In exile we wander
longing for signs
watching
waiting

Faith & doubt
dance amidst
awakening & revelation
Truth & myth
pirouette between
figurative & literal
Understanding balances
humility & ego

Weary feet fall forward
Wary countenance checks carefully
Signs exclude
Words reject
May we welcome the neglected
by accepting diversity

Into the morn
the unexpected arises
As afternoon unfolds
the unplanned blooms
into awakening
When evening unfolds
awareness reveals wisdom

Peace poised precariously
amidst arming agendas
Previous patterns parroted
responsibility ravenously relinquished
We wait – watching

Neither rhyme, reason
fear nor sanction
binds Spirit
In absolutes’ temptation
conviction & ambiguity walk
Be Change
what remains r details

In silence
truth speaks
In breath drawn
expectation pauses
Exhaled
wisdom dawns
As a new day
flows from now to then
how shall you listen?

It cannot be purchased or acquired
though it can be pantomimed & staged
Awakening dawns with
a commitment to ask
Who am I?
Who are you?

Into the mirror
warily do we look
for harm’s reflection
we must confront
As #TRC unfolds
may we continue
even in discomfort
look

Stars gather
& glimmer gathers
In the spot light
margins are obscured
As privilege assemble
may those with ears
hear the silenced voices

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