Matrix Moments

Media Moments: Question, reflect, connect

Digital Death

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
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Dot Praise

You are vast,
The power
Universe sustaining,
And yet dust
A dot in space
Holds your love.
Maybe not the only dot,
But we are your creation
Created for good 
Sustained, released in Christ.

Created to praise
To shout out 
"God is good!"
In all circumstances:
in grey emotions
in dark pain valleys
in breathtaking mountain tops
in darkening sunsets
before light spilling sunrises
within expanding spinning galaxies.

Starting Thoughts:
Sunrises, galaxies, sunsets, mountains, valleys, dark, light, pain and peace - in all times God is good.
Poem Topic Tags: #worship, #creation, #good, #pain, #praise, #space, #sunsets, #universe
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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Released

Desert suns
sear the future,
Too hot
life stands on shifting sands
Too sharp
heat binds the lungs,
Yet a coldness somehow
cloys the heart,
Where can I be that life is found?
How will I do more than survive?

A mirage shimmers
Life just seems fake.

Cracked lips
cry out ,
"Where are you God?"

In faith
seeing nothing
I stumble another step
I scrabble over
endless tops,
the next sand ridge
pours through
my sun seared encrusted fingers
and another image appears
is the real - fake
or the fake - real?

I stumble, sliding
down rivers of sand time
towards the green,
metamorphosing tree outlines,
an oasis,
a whole world's tip
like an iceberg of life
from underneath
this scorched world I am in.

How did I not know
God was in the desert?
A deep pool, cool, powerful life
Underground
There all the time
Water, bubbling, gushing
Extreme.

Through eyes half blind
I see water flowing to the surface,
singing to my soul,
Surrounding, penetrating
so real,
green life afresh.

A call
to drink deep,
to know an intimacy
of Christ in me,
A depth of love.
Refreshed.
Released.
Released from the dry - Christian Poem

Desert

Tired arms
leafless, lifeless  
stretch for new existence 
Old ways shed as 
animating Holy Spirit rain
descends watering 
particles of seed faith, 
Dry desert awakens
to the knowledge 
of God's truth
of God's power
of God's future and hope, 
Leaving behind the past 
extending into the new
the blooms 
refresh 
re-green
revive the barren land. 
  
A reforested signpost 
of God's love, 
Lifting... 
heavy hearts 
hurting souls 
cynical minds.

Starting Thoughts:
Dry Life, choking like a desert, sucking and spreading inexorably? Can we find something new to turn around desertification of our tomorrows?
Poem Topic Tags: #barren, #bloom, #desert, #dry, #heavy, #holyspirit, #life, #new, #revive, #spring, #tired, #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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