Category Poems
Identity
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…
Grandfather
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…
Light
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
Words
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
Reflection
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…
Whānau
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…
Light Painting
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…
Moving Mountains
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…
You Done Good
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…
Slowing Down
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…
The Tree
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…
Cultivate
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…
