Beacons

In the tree of ancient stars
The leaves are my hands
You are the wind
The leaves let go

Deep woven sinews
Threaded in branches
Overarching echoes
In memory stained

Beacons shining away
Light reaching high
Those stars above
High in the tree
You are free

Dreams

Dreams of a dreamer from afar
No longer seeking but rising
Like the eastern star
Bright and alive he shines

Tattered dreams from long ago
Stitched and bound together
Now awake and realising
The dreams are real for us

As he bangs the drum of time
we wait in a future embrace
overthrown and unlocked
the machines await our sign

Sea song

Beyond the sand and shore
the ocean sings her song
in waves and tides alone
sometimes with a roar
at other times a sigh
as the creatures cry within
the loss of many kin
their calls are urgent now

their wait is never done
and when the peace moon rises
they will sing their joy to her

Heart of creation

Deep in the silence
We hear the voice of our heart
Calling and beckoning us
To face the challenges
Dreaming and imagining
On the edge of the world
Creating our stories
Creating our truths
Our hearts are always right
They are born of stars and infinity
And they create our future
Where we decry the darkness
And face the light

The Matrix - shared spoken-word poetry

Saw this several years ago, a brilliant spoken-word poem inspired by the movie 'The Matrix' and the urgency to change the current issues of corruption and destruction. The main message (quoted below) is even more poignant and urgent now.

"We’re using poetry to tell every man, woman, and child across the land that our destiny is in our own hands, and all we have to do is take a stand. . . and here’s how.

Stop paying for credit, stop paying the bankers tax, use interest free credit schemes instead, buy all your consumer durables second hand, buy everything else from markets, family businesses, and charities only, stop watching televisions news and stop reading news papers too, and if you work for a publicly limited company, leave your job immediately, and finally demand that the bankers give back the wealth they’ve robbed from humanity.

Too much to ask of you? Too much for you to do?

Go back to sleep then. The matrix has you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P01ZxSb3SZM