poetry

returning

2022-09-08T12:18:28+09:3012 September 2022|Poetry|

golden floodlight lifts greens to bolder brightness against deep grey – lifts me on a rolling wave of petrichor I can almost hear on my heart’s memory of the ocean – a sudden taste [...]

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cherished

2022-09-08T15:43:35+09:301 August 2022|Poetry|

my body leans into it, the warmth: starved of it, these winter days of grey my body reaches up to it, the expanse: breathes again out from under heavy skies my body stretches into [...]

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When God calls

2022-10-13T13:51:34+10:301 February 2022|Ministry of Presence|

Preaching at Wesley Uniting Church, Canberra Jer 1:4 – 10; Luke 4:21 – 30 Today’s reflection is poetic, a meditation on the call of God to people, individuals and together, as we [...]

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Listen to the Whispers

2022-10-13T13:52:58+10:3025 January 2022|Poetry|

Poems from Whisper On My Palm  Whisper On My Palm is a new collection of poems I will have published with Resource Publications in 2022. These are poems through the experiences of grief, illness, [...]

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hope arising

2022-09-06T12:11:25+09:3018 December 2021|Poetry|

hearing Michelle, Mikhaila, Alison, Jade, and Tania speak at the Rise Christmas Party 2021 from this still space, this gentle pace of gather, together, communion, we ponder – hope – [...]

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Touch

2022-10-13T13:54:27+10:3024 August 2021|Poetry|

I cannot hold your hand today, friend or stranger, when we meet. I take instead the rose’s leaf, ‘hold me’, it said, ‘offer me your greeting.’ I cannot share embrace with [...]

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Like a brave green shoot

2022-10-13T13:59:27+10:3026 January 2021|Poetry|

Burns night hope, 2021  Oh my hope is like a new green shoot that's reaching for the sun. Oh, my hop is like a dancing tune, I'm bound to come [...]

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Last Christmas

2022-10-13T13:59:13+10:308 December 2020|Poetry|

For Christmas 2019 and 2020 (and the rest)  Last Christmas gave us a fright, lines of dazzling light, searing wounds visible from highest skies. This Christmas, we can not light even [...]

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Ten albums of impact

2022-10-13T14:02:28+10:302 September 2020|On Reflection|

From time to time, friends tag each other on Facebook in ten day sharing sprees on a theme: black and white photo from your day; albums that had a significant impact; books you love. [...]

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