Christian Poetry and Spoken Word Media for Churches and Faith

Love First

13.11.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

If first
front and centre
I believe loudly
speak loudly
gossip loudly
behave strongly
react strongly
If first I
become more of the noise
become more protest
become more social media
more arguments
more righteous anger
more fear
more hate
but live without love
stand up without love
listen without love,
I live for nothing,
Without love
I won’t be known,
not be truly free
not be truly me
I won’t be Known
as one who walks
like Christ
with the love of Christ
connecting me
with a cord
that can’t be broken
to others who
in their differences
variety
thinking
are also God’s kingdom
here on Earth.

Look at Christ
See Jesus
the Saviour’s eyes,
live in His love,
be His love,
for by our love
love in action and truth
we will be known.

Bible Verses
1 John 3: 16-18, 1 Corinthians 13, John 13:35
Starting Thoughts:
As we react to each other across the church, nation, earth and we seem to make more noise and less sense what does Jesus say?
Poem Topic Tags: #protest, #action, #body, #church, #freedom, #identity, #kingdom, #known, #love, #media, #noise, #power
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Did You Hear?

13.11.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Did you hear?
Did you listen?
In the stream
of your constant words
in the vortex
of your criticism crisis
in the negativity
of idea paralyses
in the absence
of love’s gratefulness
in the increase
of new hatefulness,
Why is the power
important?
Why do you feel
impotent?
Why do you
need so much to win?
Why has my life
let you down?
Why do the praises
I hear resound hollow?

Let me take your
minds and broken hearts
again, and again and again
I am big enough
to take it all,
Let my goodness
my love
my knowledge of you
my love for others
around you
all people in your life
shape you, grow you
create more you in you,
Let me heal a nation
through a people
holding tight
to the power of
love through the cross,
give it away
a life striving
a life surviving
Be the humanity
of the kingdom arriving
with my heart.
Be my body
be everyone
who I desire you to be
Love your true identity
in the body
in my church
in my nation
arise together
laugh with me
be free with me
be awake with me
smile with me
breathe with me
dance in the rain with me
in harmony with me
be the resting place
of love with me.

Bible Verses
Ephesians 3
Starting Thoughts:
As people divide on different sides of Covid arguments friendships and relationships are broken. How easy is it to take something and allow it to stop love between people, halt respect, give lie to the past together.
Poem Topic Tags: #big, #body, #church, #criticism, #cross, #hearing, #identity, #listening, #love, #negativity, #peace, #power, #praise, #words
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Conquered by Division

12.11.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

We thought we knew
our world
our life
our futures
Then airports shut
distance became
distance again
homes became
prisons and playpens
businesses shuttered
and viruses spread
in bodies and minds,
Uncertain times
with blindness of future,
reverberating noise
Fear atmospheres
and shadows shaking
thoughts and reactions,
Fight and flight
collapsing logic
strangling
the way I used to think
shuttering my humanity
closing my care,
creeping chaos,
manipulative media,
arguments and acid anxiety.

What will I choose
these echoes of
disintegration and violence
severing relationships
dividing hearts,
Or through me
Allow others to see
our God’s gentleness
our God’s kingdom
our God’s love?

Will I let go
think on, meditate on
have eyes for
Jesus,
See God
Give God the fear
the struggles
and choose life
choose grace
choose restoration
choose God’s peace
and give the peace of God?

Starting Thoughts:
While watching a video about bullying in a school I picked up my phone and started writing.
Poem Topic Tags: #virus, #arguments, #covid19, #distance, #division, #fear, #gentleness, #love, #peace, #relationships
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Everybody

15.10.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

It started with a nickname
a random label
assigned in a moment
replicated repeated strikes
of laughter spikes
suffocations from voiceless friends
word knives carving my skin
silence from a universal background,
Every new person
who joined the class
repeated the fear
created more tears
collapsed the hope that
someone would be different
someone would be brave
someone would bring change
someone would stand up,
every day increased
the isolation
and the closing in
of the surrounding pack
hyenas on the prowl,
The hurt is me.

The bully is me
The bystander is me
The silence is me
Everybody is me.

Starting Thoughts:
While watching a video about bullying in a school I picked up my phone and started writing.
Poem Topic Tags: #words, #bullying, #bystander, #emotions, #hate, #hurt, #pain, #sadness, #schools, #silence
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Seeking Sunshine

18.08.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

True life will not come
Without turning
to the light
to the glory
Without opening
your heart
To the power
to the rebirth,
welcoming
the promise kiss
Radiant rays
on human skin.
Shift to
discover
sunshine shimmers,
Welcoming
new life soul deep
new freedom
Renewing you forever.

God is light
This light
pure joy
the gift from God
forever forgiveness,
forever salvation
complete to your core,
Your confessions now
Unfolding your soul
to the truth
the essence
the pulse
of who you are
in Christ.

Shine!

Starting Thoughts:
Picture a wild flower field!
The Lilly of the valley.
Open to the sunshine, the power that comes from God for you to be yourself. If the flowers of the fields are clothed, looked after, loved like this by Go - how much more us?
Poem Topic Tags: #confession, #flowers, #forgiveness, #identity, #life, #light, #salvation, #shift, #soul, #sunshine,
Posting Tags: #artist, #christ, #christian, #church, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Hungry?

08.08.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

A hole in each of us
opening our essence
Challenging us to more.

So we run
Or sleep
or pretend fulfilled life,
we blunt
Bludgeon the hunger
Bit by bit
whacking the mole
filling the hole
With faking scraps
Spending our soul
labouring on never satisfaction
Seeking
Distraction and dissatisfaction
a swallowing snake
of small shallow things
consuming
joy and freedom.

So ask…
for the hunger
for the stirring
for new moments
for more,
Pursue God,
Seek hungry friends
Awaken hunger in others
Awaken the sleepers
Who are just waiting
for your words,
for your actions.

But first -
Ask
Seek
Desire
Hunger!

Starting Thoughts: Are we just trying to fill a hole in our lives? How hungry are we for God to change our lives, starting with ourselves?
Poem Topic Tags: #seeking, #actions, #ask, #challenge, #desires, #fake, #friends, #holes, #holyspirit, #hunger
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

A hole in each of us that can be filled by the challenge of stepping towards Jesus. Video Poem.

Seeing God

01.08.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Know you are
forgiven
You are
great in God’s eyes
Chosen
smiled upon
Made pure.

So
Walk into purity
flowing free
to see God
be with God
Know God more,
Listening.. quiet,
Loud roars and released
before God,
Understanding Forgiveness
letting go of
frustrations
distress
rubbish
burdens
Hurt
Fears,
Hear His voice
His call,

Feel His arms
around you,
Refining your
heart purity,
Your beating blood
pulsing with
Heaven on Earth
Heaven in Earth
And
See God
Be with God
Know God.

Come together
Experience praise
Experience hope
Joined in worship
soul deep,
Call worthy
Call priceless
Call honour
Call heart to heart
Call with one voice
Call with one voice together
“There is power in the
Name of Jesus,
Great is our God.”

Starting Thoughts:
Written in a worship session. We come with the presence of God in our lives to cooperate worship and collectively the Holy Spirit can open us to a closer experience with God.
Poem Topic Tags: #chosen, #forgiveness, #heaven, #identity, #name, #power, #praise, #purity, #released, #voice, #worthy, #worship
Posting Tags: #artist, #christ, #christian, #church, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Call Time

18.07.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Call back timelessness
Call back time
Call back the voice,
Not old ways
Not decadence
but decades
of cross centered change,
Call new vitality
new wine
from the oldest vine
planted deep
in soil, soul penetrating,
Calling,
drawing rivers of life
to the surface.

Who can change nations?
My God!
Who can transform a culture?
My God!
Who can forever change a city ?
My God!

Call out to
Christchurch founded on Christ
rooted in
Salvation and authority
Righteousness
peace and joy,
Call
the Church of Christ
to arise
and stand renewed
on the cross
centered in the city
revived in the vine.

Stand in the history of blessing
Step up into His light
Step with the Light
Stir in the Spirit
Restoration and renewal…
Ōtautahi
Christchurch.

Starting Thoughts: The history of Christchurch stands on a cross centered history of faith and revival from both Maori and European believers. Renewal starts with opening hearts across cultures and in respect and honour, standing on that history of blessing.
Poem Topic Tags: #christ, #city, #cross, #faith, #god, #life, #light, #renewal, #revival, #river, #transformation, #vine
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

CAlling for revival from the history of Christchurch

Digital Death

14.07.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Why, why, why?
In the dark corners
Wasted moments and hours
Silenced hopes
Muzzled voices
and unplugged power
we sit slouched
Curled, trapped with choice
Lying back passive
Lovers of the screen
Stroked by endorphin
adrenaline sleep
If only we could lift
eyes beyond pixel boxes
digital square coffins
take a step outside
or even look out a window
and drink in
the imprint of His nature
still stamped on our world
see wonder
and wonder…
See under
the patterns
a better why.

Starting Thoughts: In a world of increasing screen addiction will screens become an opiate that LEDS us into a distracted, numbed non-life?
Poem Topic Tags: #wonder, #addictions, #creation, #digital, #distractions, #nature, #patterns, #screens, #why
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Tags: desert, dry, revive, bloom, holyspirit

The Presence of Christ

29.05.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Christ with me
before me
behind me,
Christ in me
beneath me
above me,
Christ on my left
on my right
on my mind,
Christ where I lie
where I sit
where I arise,
Christ before time
Christ beyond time
Christ embedded in time.

Christ in the laughter of a child
Christ in the roar of the waves

Christ the light in my eyes
Christ in every eye that sees me

Christ in the depths of my heart
Christ in every heart that meets me

Christ in the words I breathe
Christ in the words I hear

Christ is truth
Christ is Hope
Christ is Salvation

Christ’s story
Christ’s love
infinity forever with us.

With thanks to Saint Patrick 500AD, Ireland

Starting Thoughts:
The infinity of God in: space, time, creation, nothing, light, emotions, humanity… omnipresent
Poem Topic Tags: #closeness, #everywhere, #heart, #hope, #infinity, #laughter, #light, #love, #omnipresence, #presence, #time, #truth
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Sliding Doors

02.05.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Concrete subway entrance
white tiles scattering light
daily journey to known destinations
daily journeys of choice chance,
I rush down the steps
Hitting the base platform
Fight through stainless steel turnstile
Hopefully looking towards
black edged sliding doors
of the crowded train ready -
about to leave,
it seems that time has
collapsed to this moment
Slower yet faster
Frozen yet blurred
Will I make the ride?
Will I step through the sliding doors?
Will I make today’s future?

How will my life change
if I make it?
if I don't?
how does life turn on
the coin flip
the paper, scissors, rocks of life
the slip on the path
the bump in the queue
the look into someone's eye?

the tickets of chance

People
Pause
Purpose

Starting Thoughts:
Life turns on moments of choices we make or don't know have been made for us. Popularised by the Sliding Doors movie, what could happen if something was a few seconds earlier or later?
Poem Topic Tags: #aimlessness, #chance, #choices, #futures, #life, #predestination, #purpose, #tickets, #time,
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Tags: questions, silence, cross, truth, pain

Kingdom

11.04.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Why do I try so hard
Or other times just let it all go
Why do I play
you’re not the boss
of me,
I will do it my way
I will say one thing, do another
Be Whatever...

so I pay the price
building my own barred prison
digging my deepening grave
Living to be a lord
of self
creating empty spinning destiny
Fear and Lies
spinning into dark illusions
all dramatic drama
Trying to control my life
Trying to control others.

But Life is threaded
with this paradox struggle,
an alternative reality,
Wherever we are yielded
surrendered to God
accepting His sacrificial love
Wherever we love God
Wherever Jesus has been given control
Wherever we remember our identity
We are
lifted from darkness
to become kings and priests,
Wherever his lordship reigns
in our lives
the kingdom within expands
revealing to the world
a forever dominion
destroying devil works
in God’s authority,
Through bowing to
the Lord of our life
to the Kingdom of now and not yet
to the kingdom of God -
a resurrected Jesus
   Reverses the curse
   Cleanses our sin
   Releases freedom
   Changes our lives.

So I hear...
Choose the kingdom
that will not be shaken
Open - unlock areas of
my life to God,
claim the promises,
give my life Centre
to the loving, intimate,
forgiving, holy, powerful,  living Lord,
Receive the everlasting King
Step into authority
Step into who I am.

This is my king!
Look at my Jesus
Worship my Jesus
Liberty in the name of Jesus.

Starting Thoughts: From our choices we can create a prison we build for ourselves. A video spoken word poem on encouraging us to surrender to Christ, unlock and step into who we are in Christ. Renewal, vision and identity and letting go of those things that hinder us.
Poem Topic Tags: #authority, #control, #controlled, #fear, #identity, #king, #kingdom, #lies, #lordship, #paradoxes, #prison, #self, #sin, #surrendered
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Standing in a Crowd

28.03.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Wholeness came
through the hole in time
the pivoting point in time
collisions of past, present and future
and the King who became human,
began thirty years
journey on Earth.

God:
Passion sending purpose
Love leading to suffering
sending the light
revealing the blood cost
knowing the loneliness of pain
bringing life out of hell
singing life out of death.

Servant:
on a donkey
destiny hidden in simplicity
deliverance hidden in sacrifice,
surrender freeing salvation
to all people through
the King of miracles
the King of creation,
Palms laid, palms raised
A carpet of Praises
a crowd of worship
recognising the Saviour,
The eternal work of God
made flesh
made to ride
made for betrayal
made for the joy
made for the passion
made to die
to change
everything.

Self:
In the crowd
we stand
praise or playing,
Living lives of
possibilities, potential
pain, power, passion.

In the crowd
we can survive, hide,
Or decide.

Starting Thoughts:
Where are we in the crowd? Just hiding behind the majority, safety in numbers? Willing to stand out and be different? Are we prepared to make a decision for our King?
Poem Topic Tags: #christ, #christmas, #crowds, #decisions, #easter, #hiding, #palmsunday, #passion, #sunday, #worship
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Tags: easter, passion, donkey, crowd, king

Questions

07.03.2021 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Confusion and curiosity questions
Seeking answers because
we do not know,
genuine searching,

Or questions asked
seeking answers we desire,
In the space between answers given
and broken expectations
these questions are often dropped,
avoiding unwanted answers
avoiding uncomfortable truths.

Other questions
fall into emptiness
spoken into void
a black hole of non-return
disappearing into
vastness of life and space
creating a smallness paradox
that travels the mind
in endless unanswered patterns,
spirals where silence echoes silence,
leaving the questions
hanging in the silence...

Like Jesus.

My God, my God, why have you
deserted me?
Why are you so far away?
Won't you listen to my groans
and come to my rescue?
I cry out day and night,
but you don't answer,
and I can never rest.

Because of this silence
because of seeming absence
We have this reality -
Jesus has been there
we have this promise -
Jesus is here with us.

Starting Thoughts: Questions are amazing doors that can open us to the world around us. We can also use them as weapons to blunt truth or reveal truth. Sometimes there seems to be no answers to our most painful questions.
Poem Topic Tags: #answers, #avoiding, #cross, #deserted, #pain, #promises, #questions, #searching, #truth,
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #god, #instawrite, #jesus, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Tags: questions, silence, cross, truth, pain

God of Echoes

22.12.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word |Seeker Written by: W Grieve

Above clouding noise
Above erasing passions
Above tides of bleak tiredness
in the midst of daily routines
In dark nights of the soul,
the God of life echoes
a call
reverberating again and again
A kick beat into my life
penetrating extreme sound
Shaking my inner soul
Creating a transparent heart
before the Creator God.

Awareness arises
I have nothing
standing
crystal-clear before Christ’s journey
crystal-clear in front of the cross
Before this love
Poured down, poured out,
overflowing, deep beyond deep
I stop, talk to God
Press pause...
Press pause...

And now in the silence
immersed between the echoes
a silence stretching eternity
into its depths,
holy love intertwines
profound closeness, meaning
questions and realities
into the space,

How can I not smile in this love?
How can I not cry in this love?
How can I not wonder in this love?
How can I not be in this love?
How can I not find peace in this love?
How can I respond in worship to this love?
My God, my King.

Starting Thoughts: In the noise and routines of life, the business, can we press pause… and rest in the silence immersed between the echoes and listen, become aware of God's love.
Poem Topic Tags: #business, #cross, #echo, #echoes, #love, #pause, #silence, #soul, #sounds, #transparent, #wonder, #worship
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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Tags: silence, waiting, noise, love, closeness

Jared and Jessica

05.12.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Can’t help falling in love
with an eye fiesta
of variegated sea blues to green lawn
From Aqua bay to
Green shades native forest
Tui notes cascade above
white water stream,
Grey clouds lace mountain ridges
releasing showers onto
the dress up colours of wedding guests
and umbrellas fetched from cars.

Then a pause in the rainy weather
Moisture trickles joy in eyes
of the bow tie groom
as the bride glides on father’s arm
down the grassy isle,
Ceremony words
Lace the air
Weaving God’s life
Prayer and communion
Laughter with love
Friends and family in tune
with the outdoor celebration,
A stillness descends
wind pauses holding breath
and sun warms our backs
Rings with pledges and loyalty
exchanged
Jared and Jessica
Heart and song
Can’t help falling in love
with you

Starting Thoughts: A wedding of a great pair of friends. Held in one of the bays in Akaroa, Christchurch.
Poem Topic Tags: #wedding, #ceremony, #church, #friends, #love, #vows, #relationships
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

marriage and love, ceremony on Banks Peninsula

Tags: kites, grandchildren, spirit, wind, fun

Renewed

27.09.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

The mantle
has been placed
on your life,
the cloak of destiny
and revelation,
the vision of
what God has for you,
the vision of how God sees
and deeply loves you
His future dreams and hopes
Leading Your mind, will, soul
Layers to be revealed
affirming your identity.

So
Let go of the wounds
let go of the sins
embrace vulnerable,
Seek counsel
for the journey
in the disappointment, grief, fear
in the tiredness, stress and tests
Seek healing,
live a transforming
beautiful life
by taking the next step
faithful and free again.

For God
Loves you too much
to keep you small
You are now
going to grow
through process and promise
Renewed thoughts of
life and destiny intertwined
You will Stand
in your place
Declaring and decreeing
change in Christ
This is our adventure
in the kingdom...

‘He waka eke noa’
A canoe which we are all in
with no exception

Starting Thoughts: A video spoken word poem on encouraging us to step into renewal, vision and identity and letting go of those things that hinder us.
Bible Verses:
Poem Topic Tags: #adventure, #destiny, #healing, #identity, #journey, #love, #reality, #revelation, #stand, #vision, #wounds
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

No Wind Kite

16.07.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Dusk stole
across the park grass
Thinning behind winter tree branches
yellow orange striped candy colours
sunset lowering on the horizon,
still and crisp air
resting on park and playground
Friend’s children climbing rope
tetrahedron
Shouts to Dad
This is a spaceship, a mountain
a dream...

As we clambered down
hit the swing for one last time,
For the fifteenth repeat
I was asked, “Can we fly the kite?”
I glanced to the zipped backpack
Leaning against park picnic bench
With a rainbow skin and spars
poking from the top.

I pointed out the lack of wind
No moving branches
no twitch of twigs
Distracted them with flying science
about helicopters and blades
Birds and wings
Even pointed out starlings perched
dark blobs in naked branches,
And then suddenly
I realised
if the children run
dragging the kite to height - win, win
The kite will fly - sort of
- sort of fun
The boys will become more tired...

How often do we think
the wind is not there?

Run with the kite!

Starting Thoughts: Flying (or not) a kite with the grandchildren leads to thinking about how we encounter the Holy Spirit.
Poem Topic Tags: #grandchildren, #hope, #kites, #perseverance, #spirit, #window,
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

Flying kites leads with my grandchildren leads to a HOly Spirit reflection

Tags: kites, grandchildren, spirit, wind, fun

Devonport Sunshine

13.07.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

Sights of Devonport
Glinting waves
curling around
into bays
washing into harbour walls.

Sounds of Devonport
The brother running footsteps
from arcade mall mouth
Chased by calling sister
Child in arms starts singing
a song of life
Hundreds of children calls
From seaside playground
far enough away to reduce
to leaking balloons of fun and adventure
Two friends on coffee expedition
friendship conversation bubble
Punctuated by seagulls
indignant squawks
Car engines purring
Traffic voices
Welcomes called by shop owners
And a thousand unheard voices of history.

Starting Thoughts: A wonderful sunny day in Wellington, New Zealand. At the port, shopping in Devonport. Decided to capture some sights and sounds.
Poem Topic Tags: #ambience, #children, #city, #daily, #history, #holiday, #life, #mall, #newzealand, #voices, #wellington
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

A poem on the ambiance of Devonport in Wellington, New Zealand

Pentecost

07.06.2020 Filed in: Poetry |Christian |Video |Spoken Word Written by: W Grieve

One hundred and twenty
Personalities waiting
Fifty days after Easter,
could have been anywhere
in a city,
an upstairs crowd of disciples
a temple
in a room,
One hundred and twenty
Minds counted
backwards over ten long days,
a waiting cluster
of fear, praise, hope, faith, prayer
minds and hearts expanding
and contracting their emotions,
Lungs expanding
and contracting on-hold breaths,
And a second ticked by
Maybe a same moment repeated
At the end of the second
time changed
ordinary phased into extraordinary
God moved
and energy danced,
Overpowering wind roared
a sound reverberating
beyond the building
Shaking those in the room
And history repeated
The Pillar of fire
appeared in the room
Awe danced in the Retina reflections
of the disciples as they looked
the fiery column Separated
into Tongues of fire
God’s glory fire
Poured over each one
Poured inward
engulfing
each person present
filling them top to bottom,
encounters exploded within
sparked by the fire of God,
Power for a people to shine
witnesses, living testimonies
empowered
inside and out
ignited with love,
Equipped for mission,
Known by Jesus
now moving
to make Jesus known.

There is something wonderful
about the power of God
Will you go to the room?
Will you pray?
Will you dream?
Will you ask?
Will you open?

Harare mai, Wairua Tapu. (Welcome Holy Spirit)

Starting Thoughts: A video spoken word poem on Pentecost. The Disciples were in a room aware that they were waiting for something to happen, following the crucifixion, resurrection and accession of Jesus. The Holy Spirit -the Helper - was about to pay them a visit.
Bible Verses: John 12:23-24 , Acts 1: 8-11
Poem Topic Tags: #celebration, #church, #disciples, #fire, #glory, #holyspirit, #mission, #pentecost, #pillar, #tongues
Posting Tags: #artist, #creativewriting, #edapp, #edchat, #edtech, #elearning, #GlobalEd, #instawrite, #lrnchat, #mlearning, #poems, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, #poetryinmotion, #poetryisnotdead, #poetsofinstagram, #schools, #spilledink, #spokenword, #teaching, #TT, #typewriter, #videos, #wordsmith, #writing, #writinglife

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