A new day …
Loved
Listening
Looking
Loving
Laughing
Living
[Mark Conner – January 24th 2014]
The Cycle of Life
Struggle … caterpillar … earth bound
Darkness … cocoon … transformation
New birth … butterfly … flight
New life … colour … beauty …
Sudden death – one life for another
All too soon.
Is there more?
[Mark Conner – January 23rd, 2014. Written after observing a willy wagtail eat a butterfly on a walking trail, leaving just it's beautiful wings. Note the ant already there]
Slow
Driving
Talking
Eating
Walking
Thinking
Listening
Loving
Go Slow
[Written for fellow A.D.D., busy, task-addicted, adrenaline junkies like myself]
Silence and Solitude
Day started well … a walk, silence, conversation, coffee.
Serenity invaded by noise.
Walking away now …
… Slow down
An invitation … to silence …
Just to BE.
Sit down … stay awhile
No rush … no hurry
Still
Peace. Joy. Loved.
Content. Enough.
Look … listen …
No agenda. Together, that's all. One.
Timelessness … present … this moment
Now. Here. Today.
With the I AM.
Wait …
No outcome … just experience … and presence.
Jesus walked everywhere
In conversation
Listened and observed
Taught people from that
Simple. Profound.
Fresh. New.
Life
[Mark Conner. January 23rd. 2014]
Prophets
Prophets are poets
Wordsmiths and craftsmen
Musicians who muse
Prophets are seers
Artists and artisans
Visionaries who venture
Ears always open
Listening to hear
Waiting for words
Attentive to sound
Eyes always open
Looking to see
Watching for pictures
Observant to images
Bushes still burn
God waits to see
Most pass on by
Few stop to look
God's heart, God's mind
Pathos and ethos then logos
Words with power
To change and transform
Where are the prophets?
Time to roar
[Mark Conner – January 22nd, 2014]
Next Poem – Silence and Solitude
A Very Different World
Cars replace donkeys
The pub over the synagogue
Image over character
Looks trump who you are
Crowded yet lonely
Advanced yet stunted
Welcome to our world
Yet people are still the same
Hungry and thirsty
For meaning and friendship
God is still the same too
Speaking through burning bushes
When people take time to look
Busy, busy, always in a hurry
Faster than ever before
Distraction, obsession, boredom
Attention deficit disorder
Quickly moving on to what's next
Hardly noticing … no time
Packed but empty lives
More turns out to be less
Slow is actually fast
And less is really more
Simplicity calls
To love and be loved
That's all …
A very different world.
[Mark Conner – January 22nd, 2014]
My Poetry
Rhythm more than rhyme
Feelings over form
Words over whatever
No thunder
No lightning
Just a whisper
Listen then write
Read then listen
Inspired circle
Express the heart
Tease the mind
Stir the spirit
Articulate life
Words have power
Shape your world
Never the same
See the change
Transformation
[Mark Conner – January 23rd, 2014]