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Politics

This Is Canada

  1. This is Canada.
  2. Soil be ripping up
  3. Water is dripping yep
  4. Forests we flipping up
  5. This is Canada.
  6. First ones we devastate
  7. Brown ones incarcerate
  8. White ones we insulate
  9. This is Canada.
  10. Rainbows are shining through
  11. But ignore white, pink, blue
  12. Each one they’re lying to
  13. This is Canada.
  14. Sorry a thick facade
  15. Hiding the sickness caused
  16. Poor to do business on
  17. This is Canada.

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Heavenly Mother

Mother to the Stars

  1. With silver arms and midnight hands, she pulled in outstretched reach
  2. The lapping waves and hushed surf to bare the hidden beach.
  3. Deep from the sand, she formed a star and raised it to her breast
  4. And nursed it dear and tenderly, just as she had the rest.
  5. She helped it grow under her touch, with wisdom she did guide.
  6. Each stage of growth, each mature phase, filled her with love inside.
  7. The time had come—it always has—for her to say goodbye.
  8. Reluctantly, she held her babe, then perched it in the sky.

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Poetry

Silent Descent

  1. Leaves are turning brown, red and yellow, too,
  2. Falling from their perch, exiting from view,
  3. Touch upon the soil, lie without a sound,
  4. Through the rain and snow, turn into the ground.
  5. Flakes depart the clouds, icy arms extend,
  6. Float through quiet air, silently descend.
  7. Land on leaf and blade or the city street.
  8. Final moment now, melt in mild heat.

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Poetry

On Desert Sand

  1. Full of dove sent from above and led by spirit holy
  2. There to stand on desert sand, a place so meek and lowly.
  3. Double score the hunger sore to clear the soul and body
  4. Heart on high and single eye rest in the presence godly.
  5. Break of dawn, the night is gone, return to peace deserted
  6. Through my prayer my divine heir into my heart inserted.
  7. Moonlight time, the summit climb, the thousands fed with fishes
  8. Clear my mind and leave behind all of my selfish wishes

Shownotes

  • Reference scriptures
    • Matt 4:1-2, Matt 14:23, Mark 1:35, Luke 4:42, Luke 5:16, Luke 6:12
  • Talk on setting goals

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Poetry

Patriarchal Squeeze

  1. Rainbows on my shoulders as I’m cut down at my knees.
  2. Every door I enter I find locked with guarded keys.
  3. Each time my mouth opens, it is stung by swarming bees.
  4. Every bridge I’ve builded is engulfed by flaming breeze.
  5. Heartbeats shattered slowly in a patriarchal squeeze.
  6. Lungs are ever gasping as each breath the robots seize.
  7. Warmth inside me snuffed out by a suffocating freeze.
  8. I’m once again collapsing as again my spirit flees.
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Heavenly Mother

Bright Face

  1. When I look upon her face, I see divinity.
  2. When I am alone with her, I feel affinity.
  3. Silver beams caress my face, and blue rays soothen me.
  4. As she passes sleeping earth, she nods approvingly,
  5. Gently guiding owl and wolf and ’possum, hare to see.
  6. Strength and pow’r alone she wields to pull and bear the sea.
  7. Vacillate ‘tween life and blood in lunar harmony.
  8. As a mother to the stars, yet watching over me.

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Poetry

Clapping at Rainbows

  1. Sitting on my lawn chair as I gaze toward the sky.
  2. Clapping at the rainbows as I watch them float on by.
  3. Cheering on the unicorns as they dance in the street.
  4. Smiling at the glitter as it falls down at my feet.
  5. Shaking rainbow pom poms I have bleached a blinding white.
  6. Waving denim banner that I keep within the light.
  7. Twirling plaided streamers as I bang my silent drum.
  8. Building much of nothing with my hands under my bum.

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Poetry Uncategorized

Emergence

  1. Peeking dawn disturbs the night
  2. Morning eyes welcoming sight
  3. Sleeping grass crawls from the snow
  4. Stretching seeds not far below
  5. Hatchling chipping at its shell
  6. Butterfly, its silken cell
  7. Lava seeps from earthen crust
  8. Twinkling stars from dying dusk

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Poetry

Whispering Beyond

  1. While my eyes are searching, something else is urging, tugging at my heart.
  2. While my mind is thinking, something else is springing, struggling to impart.
  3. While my ears are listening, something else is glistening, sparkling in my soul.
  4. While my fingers touching, something else is clutching, marking up the holes.
  5. While my reason strengthens, something else does lengthen, beckoning through space.
  6. While my logic hardens, something else is ardent, reckoning with grace.
  7. While deduction tightens, something else does brighten, whispering beyond.
  8. While my body’s proving, something else is moving me to e’er respond.

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Poetry

Lavender Soul

  1. Slumber breeze plucks from the trees the leaves and seeds unbound,
  2. Softly down with scarce a sound, impregnating the ground.
  3. Fallen snow, a cradle low, to stow from blow aloft.
  4. Intertwining rain and shining guiding seedling soft.
  5. One hand wise paints blue the skies, established clouds up high.
  6. One hand true the sea subdued, renewed the surf and tide.
  7. Planted groves and fashioned hooves, and fin and wing prepared;
  8. Ash and dust infused by hush, the rush of breath made bare.
  9. River shores, and temple doors, and forest floors are where
  10. Voice above came down as dove, to them in love declare.
  11. Manger still, and garden spill, and pierced hill, nearby.
  12. Quiet site, and mountain side, and desert bright, the cry.
  13. Seeded through a heart of blue, now made anew and wrought.
  14. Planted pink inside the think to never shrink in thought.
  15. Lavender the soul to stir, binary blur abound.
  16. Hold both hands, I move to stand with divine grand astound.

Listen to me explain the symbolism behind this poem on the following episode of the Hot Pepper Poetry Podcast.