.

A

Bright star in the

Cold sky

Denies our

Existence its

Foreign

Gaze

Has the

Incisive

Joy of youth a

Keen glance that should be

Long

Motionless in the grave yet

Now looks on us who

Only

Perceiving a moment in our tiny

Quotient of its existence

Resemble a firefly’s

Sparkle but

To be here

Under its light is a

Vision for

Wonder

.

.

A stone falls in a pond, the ripples carry

echoes of that moment to the rim

in circle after circle, marrying

origin to end. At the beginning

of the universe, when time and space

were one, a moment birthed the multitude

of things, expanding in concentric arcs

of power. So the world has been renewed,

the face of time pierced by the One. His sign –

a cross, an empty tomb, a hurricane

within a room – we feel it realign

our inner being. What was, ever the same

shall be, the centre of eternity,

has reached our shore like ripples on the sea.

.

.

The photo shows you trying to shake his hand,

while he, with eyes elsewhere, has placed his hand

upon your head. You’re just a child, adorned

with markings of your tribe, while he, adorned

in suit and tie, is ruler of the land.

The privilege to which a man is born

determines much in this great southern land.

The scene was set before the child was born.

But privilege is more than suit and tie.

The colours of the earth upon his skin

remind us of the place to which we’re tied,

and that assize through which new worlds begin –

when You are seen in every human face

and dignity shines forth from every place.

.

[A photo of the Prime Minister, Tony Abbot, with his hand on the head of an indigenous boy from Arnhem Land, as the boy, unnoticed, holds out his hand.]

.

At life’s

Beginning

Cohabitants of

Dawn

.

Each

Finds a way to

Grow

Holding

Inside their

Joint

Knowing

.

Love

Moulds

Nobly

.

Opening

Persuading

Questioning

Revealing

Silencing

Transforming

.

Under life’s surface

Vision

Warmer

Expands

.

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.

Cloud

Over

Mountain

Plateau

Above

Sky

Solid

Intense

One-fold

Nascent

.

.

Grown heavy

Rain

Against

Crags

Intwined

Occident

Undoing

Sun

.

.

Sundown

Last

Obscured

White

.

Transcendent

Orion

.

A

Nothingness

God

Enters

Rest

.

.

At dawn a

Belt of stars

Our

Universe

Nature’s

Diadem

Incredulous

Naked

Generosity

.

Inbreath

New

.

Life

Obtained

Viva

Ever present

.

.

Father

Abba

I

Theme

Host

Fulfilment

Urtext 

Living

Numinous

Ecstatic

Silent

Serene

.

.

with my son

seeing

.

.

Blackness shines

Gold

.

.

Sunlight

Shadows

Pavane

.

.

Mist

Sun

.

.

Thunder

Continuo

Rain

.