Joyce's Bird Poems

  21 May 2021 Integrity, Intuition, and God Do I live each day thoughtlessly , just because it happens , Or just so I can tick off boxes of adventure, achievement, and much more, Like the chance to see someone or some s pecial place yet again? Do I re ally need to do all this before leaving for the other shore? W hy am I so desperate to plan what the future brings, Instead of relaxing and letting the days unfold as they will? Do I hope that having definite plans will push endings and death away, That having too much to do is better than having time to kill? The answer to my confusion about direction, purpose, and meaning Is perhaps found by considering integrity, intuition, and God, And thus opening to the complexit ies and myster ies of life Perhaps not to completely understand,...

  6 May 2021 The Greatest Adventure of All If the idea of living with fun, play, creativity and curiosity frightens us Because we fear such frivolous and selfish behaviour will lead to our downfall, Perhaps this slogan God in her wisdom created to guide us will help: It says simply: ‘Life is an adventure, or nothing at all.’ So what is an adventure, and what makes it so important, That we should change from being serious and responsible to become merry fools? Adventure is truly cherishing all the mystery and possibilit ies of life With pushing aside boundaries and doing things differently as our tools. One path to adventure is through seeking danger and risk, Exploring our limits, both physical and mental with joy, Certainly adventure can also be found nearby and more simply, When we let fun, play, creativity and curiosity lead us to what we enjoy. Curiosity help s us appreciate the beauty and complexity of life, As we expand our aw...

  30 April 2021 Integrity, H ubris – and P lay, F un, C reativity and C uriosity If we are learning to live with play, fun, creativity, and curiosity In order to open more fully to God’s plans for her creation, Then we should also consider how integrity and hubris fit Into our understanding of how we can truly search for salvation. Our h ubris is destroy ing the world as we have dec ided we’re superior To all other creatures, and have the right to rule and control them all, We completely fail to see th at complexity and connections Support and s ustain us all: a truly a tragic case of pride before a fall. Filling our lives with fun and curiosity to find out how we are entangled , And using the creativity of play to discover new ways of viewing life Would help us escape the trap of aimply accepting the simple answers An d open us to looking at new possibilities that might lessen our strife. Finding i ntegrity, the search for wholeness thr...

  23 April 2021 Ode to Play, Fun, Curiosity, and C reativity It’ s exciting and intriguing to view our amazing world, As a place to focus on creativity, curiosity, play and fun, Knowing c uriosity is having fun discovering what is possible, While play enables creativity to see how things could be done. This playfulness may seem selfish in our troubled world Which has vast and complex needs for help a nd care, There’s a desperate urgency for practical effort and action Not just wasting time having fun and creating hot air. However, play and fun can only enrich our efforts to heal O ur troubled world which we struggle to understand If we emphasise curiosity about what the needs really are And creativity to figure out the best way to truly give a hand. It is thus time to take the mantra: play, fun, curiosity, creativity to heart And put our energy into exploring and absorbing the wonders around Instead of wanting for more and...

  9 April 2021 God’s Game of Life God was in a mischievous mood when she made our world Creating an amazing place to have fun, play, learn, and create Marvellous inventions, and to explore and experience many things, Knowing that the world need not endure, and that death is our inevitable fate. S omehow as the excitement of our adventures grew, we lost the plot And became fearful and greedy, wanting only more and more, And left behind many of the simpler joys and excitement s of life: The joy s of exploring, learning, and creating simple things, as life became a chore. For if we focus from day to day on how to live long, while keep ing safe, And how not do anything risky or different because we fear loss and pain, We begin to merely exist in self-made prison s of comfort and safety As life become s a burden to endure as we mindlessly let it wane. And what of those who still somehow remember our gifts Of play, fun, curiosity, and creativit...

  2 April 2021 Warp and W eft of L ife When we think of the fabric of life, ( if we think of the nature of life at all ) We may well see unhappiness and hard work as its base , With the warp made from virtuous hardship s of pain and toil, Woven together by a weft of fear and strife that keeps us separate from grace . Instead of this pained and embattled picture of entangled confusion, Perhaps we can refocus on what makes life full of splendor , And see a warp of fun and play, with a weft of curiosity and creativity Forming a fabric that truly celebrates life’s mysteries and wonder. H ow does knowing that the foundation of our lives is play and fun, Enriched and held together by creativity and curiosity, full of joy Change how we feel our connections to everything that exists From the smallest particle, through the earth itself, to every girl and boy? Curiosity, enhanced by play and fun, forms questions, and leads us As we try to see a...

  26 March 2021 The Illusion of Life What if the concept of life itself is but an illusion And there is absolutely no difference between being dead and alive? Then everything on earth - soil, rocks, trees, and people are all equal, And we a re all part of nature, full of fun and joy: together we thrive. Imagine a beginning rising from a magnificent energy Driven to create by its overwhelming sense of play and fun, That slowly evolve d into a complex world full of marvels All inter-meshed in the joy s of curiosity, creativity, and just being one. One creature, mankind, moved outside this beautiful, creative dance, And beg an to greedily demand more and more at any cost , And started to believe that people are all separate, independent individual s Powered by ‘ life’ which must be prolonged or tragically lost. W hen our species decided it was superior to everything on earth And there was no longer any need to respect the balance of li...