Category Poems

Inspired by Rwandan Refugee Simon Mbonyinshuti. Your identity stripped awayin a gunshot moment.Carrying with you only your name.Clinging to it as you hid in the dark,under beds, under chairs,emerging from…

Inspired by Film Director Marcelle Lunam. I am connected to you each and every day.Long gone, your only trace inchildhood memories you gifted to me.They surface when I look through…

Inspired by entrepreneur Michael Mayell. Failure, like compostfor new ideasthat are scattered like seeds. Some sprout Some take root Some grow Leaning towardslight. Listen to Michael Mayell’s episode

Inspired by Michelle Sharp. There is real value in an encouraging word. But only, if they’re heard.  So speak them now.Don’t delay. Why wait until tomorrow. Their home is here, today. Listen to Michelle Sharp’s episodes

Inspired by architect and community builder Camia Young. Connecting people with their purposeIs where your prevailing wind blowsMoving always in the same directionsomething your heart already knows Avoid the danger…

Inspired by Amy Marsden. My dictionary is lacking this wordfor it means more to youthan it has to me.I thought it meant ‘family’Yet you describe a web of connectionsrunning deep…

Inspired by photographer Jonathan Lee. Your eye isthe camera. Your heart isthe lens. Your mind isthe focus. Look out for the lightthat sliver of time, that fragile crystalline momentthat will reveala…

Inspired by Mark Prain, who knew Sir Edmund Hillary, and how they came up with a new venture together. Mountains cast long shadows across the land,those who conquer them even…

Inspired by Academic Dr James Austin. A life time of livingA life stream flowingalways in the same direction.Like a river,carving down a valley.Consistent through theebbs and flows ofthe seasons.Life choices…

Inspired by Kit Hindin. Why is my answer always “busy”,to the question, “how are you?”I’ve forgotten to stay still.Breathe deep and remain true. My calling and my purpose,are drowned out…

Inspired by social entrepreneur Daniel Flynn. Standing beneath this green tree its branches are widesweeping above you.Farther than you realisewaving back and forth.Living. Like a dancer.  I see you therestanding underneath.Selling…

Inspired by urban food farmer Bailey Peryman. Hard ground like pavement abandonedOnly allows for some weedsUntil you break it up into good soilA chance at new life for some seeds…