Inspired by nurturing the environment that embraces us …
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A lone human sits near the lone dead tree in the middle of the main square of the destroyed

Violence's logic
fostered by War's turmoil
preferences Few
at Many's expense
So arise we must
demanding Ancestors' Wisdom
Peace of Our Conscience
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Inspired by confronting Turmoil with Tranquillity …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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White and Grey sculpted hands reaching upward in a posture of need

In moments
when world's needs plead
& people lament
can dissuade
Remember
Comrades
we're delightfully designed
to darkness dispel
with blazing Light
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Inspired by responding to the Other’s need …
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Inspired by unshuttering one another to so shine …

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A painting of people with their hands raised in the air, with the hands in different colours.

Temper not
Righteous Rage
when Justice malformed
oppresses the people & places
we're Called to not only free
but with whom our Liberation depends
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Inspired by being loud when silence subjugates …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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The surface
where kindness reveals
our interdependence
may seem beyond reach
by intolerant voices
We rise
when offer freely
what we hope to receive
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Inspired by choosing to live joyfully …
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The beat beat
of Discord's Hate
like a symphony of One
silencing the Many
but the rhythmic rhyme
community binds
in counterpoint
finds Love's chord
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Inspired by realising with are Rhythm’s Dancer …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Upon shore's edge
expectedly awaiting
As distractions & avoidance
excuses & fear
keep us from hearing
We are not only Loved
but intended to be So
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Inspired by reading the Message in the Bottle …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Inspired by navigating time allocated to us well ...

What gifts have been given to you in order to help us all shine?
Once you know what they are, what do you intend to do with them?
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Siblings
lend not our ears
to lulling apathy
nor rhetoric hateful
Recall
Creation
boldly reminds us
1st we must
be astonished
before acting with care
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Inspired by astonishment to humbly act …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Resistance:
Faithful response
to oppression's dehumanising
Our Call's Source
never of Ego
but recognition
that Joy is our why
our Being meant to Be
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Inspired by the celebration of Joy …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Close up of a left blue eye

Kin
we share Stardust's DNA
Recall from whence we come
we're imbued to vision & dream
& make manifest what otherwise
is mere potentiality
Be bold!
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Inspired by the responsibility to dream reality into being …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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An aerial view of a green labyrinth

The rituals or reverence
which we daily enact
whether in private or public
individually or collectively
speaks to the Universe
Truth Eternal
Love
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Inspired by worship’s potential to openly welcome …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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between the clouds on top of a mountain

There's no Try
a prophet says
The tests will come
easy they are not
& realising that
alone they cannot be met
reminds us that together
we overcome
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Inspired by fostering community’s resilience …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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A Black-backed Jackal stares through the grass mid-hunt

Though Stability's Veneer
tempts with us
with a narrative false
We've oft journeyed
as a wilding people
through chaos
to find Wisdom' Revelation
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Inspired by Holy Communion in the wilderness …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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When tempted
to selfishly cannibalise home
our Ancestors' wisdom reminds
us that we relationally
depend upon Creation
so that we joyfully thrive
____________
Inspired by confronting our predilection to consume …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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colorful-sunrise-above-the-clouds-aerial-panoramic-view

Within torrent's discourse uncivil
that threatens to dehumanise
we must answer those
needing sanctuary
to not just aspire
but be the Higher Good
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Inspired by nurturing Summum Bonum …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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We don't know
until appointed time
when in response
to Other's suffering
we must
with great resolve
model Hope's eternal promise
in Shadow'd Apathy
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Inspired by the fortitude of tenacious determination …
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We're Divinely beautiful & tenaciously fragile
As we experience the mortal coil
through eyes Holy
we recognise the Mystery
that intimately binds
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Inspired by the joy in knowing our intrinsic essence …
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Inspired by painting dreams into being …

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Inspired by knowledge’s journey toward wisdom revealed …
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Inspired by bridge building …
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Art of young child holding an open book as imaginary images rise up

Through ancestral relations
reaching back in time imagined
& forward to what might be
our collective wisdom dispels
truths that dignity diminish
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Inspired by wisdom that liberates …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Australia from Space Textures from NASA

The mending of the world
a wound long deep
too often torn asunder
by our Baser Being
When we see Love
emanate from the Stranger
we begin to heal
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Inspired by Love’s Universal restoration …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Inspired by nurturing a calm mind on ground uneven …

#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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As life perpetually transitions
we bear an ever-constant invitation
to animate our portion of Universal Wisdom
so complete the arch of Justice
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Inspired by Brother MLK’s legacy & challenge …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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3D render of an annular solar eclipse in a rocky desert with a tree silhouette on the horizon.

Be assured fellow sojourner
As stars dapple the night sky
so too shall our journey
be a Divine Adventure
to which humbled awe
will Beauty reveal
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Inspired by our collective voyage with Holy Mystery …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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The Cosmos constantly invites
discerning discovery of the purpose
we each alone may contribute
to the beloved pattern
that unites us all as Kin
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Inspired by discovery our Soul’s intention …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Dissonance threatens
to diminish our blessedness
with divisive messages of us vs them
Our healing begins
with a deep breath
inviting Inner Peace
_____________________
Inspired by quelling storms that divide us …
#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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Inspired by embracing time’s precious abundance …

#MicroPoetry #140Characters #UCCan #ShineOn
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