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Library of pieces I have published on Medium
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Abundance (Poetry, Tanka, Gaia, Permaculture)
Allergy Angst at Parties and Gatherings (Allergies, Anaphylaxis, Anxiety)
Amy Marley (Poetry)
Annunziata Maria (Poetry, Memoir, Family)
An Appeal to Join Some Dots about Allergies (Allergies, Anaphylaxis, Research)
Art Plants Seeds of Change (Poetry, Travel, Art)
Authentically Amy-ish (Poetry, Self-Awareness)
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Baked Goods (Poetry, Tanka, Anaphylaxis, Allergies)
Balance (Poetry, Duality, Senryu)
BB & Tills (Poetry, Family, Gratitude)
Bees (Poetry, Nature, Anaphylaxis, Art)
Biggest Teachers in the Smallest Packages (Poetry, Children, Parenting)
Book I Can’t Forget (Poetry, Senryu, Books)
Buddha or Badass* (Ego, Spiritual Growth)
Build or Expand (Poetry, Energy, Spirituality)
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POSITIVE POETRY | TWIN TANKAS
Much gratitude to the mini-sized teachers in my life
Each and every day
The bits and pieces you say
Even how you play
Teach this Mum insights of gold
Lessons my heart tightly holds
So very grateful
Presence divinely fateful
A gift to cherish
My love never to perish
I thank you for being you
Thanks to Trista Signe Ainsworth and her joy-filled publication Thank You Notes.
This piece prompted by her first prompt — A Thank You Note to a Teacher
I couldn’t go past my two biggest teachers after life itself — my daughters, Billie and Matilda.
Their presence has been completely and utterly life-changing — the…
COLOURING OUTSIDE THE LINES | PAPER POETRY
My hands remembered best
Been a while since I felt the pull to create
With pencil, pen, words or even paint
A lump of wood
Creator understood
Moments to play
Art with something to say
To me, and maybe you
Hands with something to do
Left the mind behind
Blissfully assigned
A moment of inspired time
Captured in a simple rhyme
A weekend with an unexpected lockdown.
Ample time to be. Sketching while the girls painted, my eyes spied my old wood-burning tool mixed in with a box of paints.
Hadn’t used it for almost 20 years….
Found a piece of scrap wood —…
POETIC RANT
The fight for allergy-free foods
This is the face
Of what so-called food can do
A mild reaction
Breath still in action
Allergens the trigger
No warning, no sticker
Producers fucking with food
Untold processes skewed
Numbers with no names
GMO games
What is our food eating?
Feed grown in soils or sands
Laced with chemical strands
Grass or glyphosate
Is it too late?
Rage rises in me
Driving me to ask more
Who is this food safe for?
Resistance still there
Do I run and hide
Or chase the rollercoaster ride
Grow our own
Together or alone
What will become For the food in…
IN SEARCH OF A TRIBE
Introducing a new publication
Over the past year, as I start to fine-tune my focus to the word “allergy.” It feels like anyone I speak to has some form of connection to allergies.
In the last couple of months, the message has become so loud I can no longer ignore it.
Standing in a long line, I got talking to a stranger about it for over an hour. We didn’t realise we were at the start of the line; we were so engrossed in our conversation.
Conversations at parties (yep, I feel a bit guilty saying this, BUT.. in Western Australia, it’s been possible…
POETIC POLITICAL POKING
The time is NOW to untangle the corporate pull on our health
Profit over people
Health becomes feeble
Handing over our care
Leads to more despair
Who do we believe
To find pain relief
Our bodies screaming for health
The system geared for wealth
Crops doused in chemical
Responses almost mechanical
We need to, to feed the masses
No need for concern with the gasses
A quick jab or pills
Will ail all life’s ills
A bandaid fix
Vs nutrients added to the mix
Keep us moving on our way
No regards to the future price we pay
The race of rats
Needs some new cats
Stop the madness
Repaint the canvas
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POETRY | SEEDS OF INSIGHT
Launching a website of collaborative advice
Words of advice
The elixir of life
Or directions to strife
Seeds of insight
To tackle the fight
Given freely
to see clearly
Intention to help
Ease the pain felt
Stories we share
In moments we care
Spoken with truth
With insights for use
No one size fits all
Some support, some stall
What is right for one
Will make another run
Ears deaf to awaken
Or perception mistaken
Alchemy of joy
Or scientific ploy
Reject or take
Ours to own
As we claim stake
Into our unknown
Advice arrives at our doorstep welcomed or not.
Times we ask for…
Poetic Reflection
Sometimes I life
Sometimes I write
Writers write
Dreamers dream
Teachers teach
Screamers scream
Labels disappear
Silenced with bottles of beer
Daily habits fade away
Distracted by summer play
Dreams and visions
Guide to stride
A jack or master
A toe or leg
Balancing act or future regret
Clarity not there… yet
Doubt tests desire*
Thoughts on fire
Embrace the mess
Singe the stress
When
Not if
Is
The word
No right or wrong
Always belong
— to the now
Walk the talk or
Talk the walk
Open heart and open mind
Follow the wonder and find
Learning to let…
Mohit Gupta is the editor in chief of Roadfolk.
He reached out to me via LinkedIn before he created a beautiful space for inspiring intentional living.
When he presented the mag’s online presence only a couple of months later, I was intrigued. Humbled to be then asked to contribute as a guest writer in November.
Rasheed Hooda held my hand, guiding me with a mantra he had shared at the time;
“How does it get any better than this?
What else is possible?”
Here is a link to my first attempt to amplify my voice outside the walls of Medium.
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PROMPTED REFLECTION | POETRY
A vulnerable place
I read this week’s prompts on the screen
Full-blown resistance intervened
“What emotions do you find it hardest to accept within yourself?”
Wanted to leave it sitting on the shelf
The tell-tale sign I needed to address
Time to own up to myself and confess
Emotions that challenge my soul to express
Anger, pride and desire
Those I least admire
In me
Expected me
Why?
I try
To understand what they are telling me The insights begging to be set free I still don’t know what they want me to know I see it in my partner I see it…
