THEATRE + MUSIC + SPOKEN WORD + DANCE
10 NIGHTS IN PORT PRESENTS
We would like to Acknowledge the sacred soil we write, stand, speak and connect upon. We would like to acknowledge the sacred and timeless connection Whadjuk Noongar people have to this place, Walyalup. We pay our deep respects to Elders past & present. We acknowledge sovereignty was never ceded, and a treaty was never signed. We tell our stories on this land holding all Whadjuk Noongar Elders in our hearts, who have cared for this Country for a milenia, who still do. We acknowledge the ongoing effects of Colonisation, it is happening now, it has not ended.
We are grateful to humbly join a tradition of oral storytelling that has occurred upon this land for a thousand generations. We would like to thank the Whadjuk Noongar people, who’s land we are visitors upon. We acknowledge our Elders, from lands across the oceans, from cultures shared in different tongues, who’s spirit we keep alive in this new home. We thank Whadjuk Noongar boodjar (land), this land we hold in our koort (heart).
Always was, always will be.
Aboriginal land.
Wanjoo/Welcome to 10 Nights in Port, Walyalup’s warming winter festival which sets the town aglow every year with music, sensory splendour, fire, ceremony and art.
We live and love in a special place. We don’t own it, it owns us. Our festival reflects the fierce creative power of our town and in turn our collective ownership and the strength of our community. It’s when we come together to share with each other and the wider world. At the creative heart of this festival is a deep consideration of ways to lighten and brighten each other’s lives, to showcase unique local stories and focus on pathways forward.
You’ll find space for these contemplations at 10NIP23 but also spaces
This year’s festival presents some sparkly favourites and some new experiences. Our program is formed by creators and cultural leaders who vision better worlds. They use their knowledge, art forms, skills, strategies and community to take us there. We’re so grateful for our many creative partners, artists and producers who are working with us to bring you this year’s festival.
From the inside to the outside and back again, we invite you to celebrate Fremantle/Walyalup with us. Be it a soundtrack, a story, a gig, an experience, an event, a place, join in the adventure – take part or just enjoy the view. You can do it your way, warm with friends or warm by a fire. We’ll be lighting them for you.
EBONY JONIVUMA AYO RUSHIL PAVAN SEPSI MWABA PERUN TAJE SUKHJITJOEL
Ebony is a multidisciplinary artist. She has worked as a performer with theatre companies across Australia such as Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, Illbi- jerri Theatre, La Boite and Black Swan State Theatre. She first dipped her toes into the world of poetry writing in 2017 when she lived in Melbourne, where she spent time writing and popping into poetry events such as Mother Tongue and many more. In her learning of Noongar language, intertwining it into her writing and poetry came naturally. The beauty and core meaning of each word in Noongar Daa opened up a freedom of flow which allowed her to express and share her world in more ways than one. In sharing her poetry and speaking her people’s language, a language that belongs to this land, she hopes to also share the beauty and resilience of Noongar words.
POET POET
Joni - I’m a poet, artist, community organiser, zine maker and broadcaster born and based in Boorloo! I grew up in the poetry, music and activist communities of Perth and I’ve been kicking around making my own stuff since 2012. I’ve performed and published far and wide with my po- etry and run a huge range of legal and illegal music and poetry nights. I’m a proud trans woman and advocate for the trans community.
As a young woman living in Perth, Vuma has always found herself engaging with the stories around her as a form of entertainment, learning and to gain empa- thy. She is an emerging writ- er and avid storyteller. Her work has been published in SBS Voices, Black Ballad UK, and the Centre for Stories anthology, Under the Paving Stones, the Beach. Vuma can be found on Instagram, @diaspora_reader. Her love for community lead her to start her Book Club, @afroheritagebookclub – a space for Africans living in Australia to engage with the works of Black writers from the African continent and throughout the African diaspora.
POET POET
Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’ (He/Him) is a Nigerian-born award-winning Creative Director, Visual Artist, Writer, Community Curator & Performer who is the founder and lead creative of TAB Family. Previously living and working in Nigeria and the UK, he is now based in Boorloo. As a creative artist, Ayo Busari, alongside his alter-ego, ‘Yoruba Daddy’, are all about capturing moments and memories through words, images, and sounds. Whether it be photography, filmmaking, music-making, designing, live performances or writing. He’s an all- around multidisciplinary creative, expressing himself through these different art forms and genres. Ayo has exhibited his art at the Cool Change Contemporary, the first being part of the Soul Alphabet artists for their ‘Project 54’ Project in September 2021, the second being part of the TAB Family’s ‘This is Family’ Project From April-May 2022 and the most recent This is Family Exhibition in July 2023 at Moores Building Contemporary Art Gallery. He has also performed as a spoken word artist, musician and DJ at multiple venues including Fremantle Arts Centre, State Theatre Centre of WA, The Bird, Story Lounge – Centre For Stories, Pigeonhole, Cool Change Contemporary, The Sewing Room, Rosemount Hotel, Paper Mountain, The Rechabite, Mojos Bar, Sonar Room, Freo Social and more. His writings and visuals have been published on the second print edition of Pulch Mag, as well as various online magazines, blogs and websites including Grok Magazine (AUS), Pulch Mag (AUS) Trident Media (UK), Lucid Lemons (NG), Awe Lagos (NG), Native Mag (UK & NG) and many others.
Rushil D’cruz (aka SUSHI) is a rap artist and writer based in Boorloo. He began working in hip-hop in 2017 and in the Boorloo live music scene from 2019 to 2021. His work deals with ideas of mythology, reli- gion and humanity’s place in the natural world and draws inspiration from industrial hip-hop and metal.
MUSICIAN POET
Pavan Kumar Hari is a composer, performer, dancer, actor and director who creates vibrant, dynamic, expressive and dramatic music for theatre, film, dance and the concert hall. In 2019, Pavan completed his studies in Composition and Percus- sion at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, where he plays per- cussion and piano, and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree (Honours). In 2020, Pavan won Best Composition for Arranging in the Performing Arts WA Awards for his work in Black Swan Theatre Company and Barking Gecko Theatre Company’s production of Fully Sikh. His most recent productions include, Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Tony & Grammy-winning musical, Once, (Black Swan State Theatre Company and Darlinghurst Theatre Company).
Sepsi is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boorloo (Perth, WA) whose practice spans the mediums of music performance, writing and visual arts. She is pas- sionate about community development and wields her artistic practice(s) as a tool for change through individual and collec- tive empowerment.
Her work in arts and governance has paved the way for the meaningful inclusion of minority group artists in Boorloo through advocacy, skills training and teaching, consultancy and management.
DJ DANCER
mwaba: Alexx Mubanga (Zambia/Perth) is a Zambian born dance teacher, choreographer and Youth Worker who teaches Afro-fusion; a unique style of African dance that blends various traditions such as; AfroBeats (West Africa), Afrohouse and Kuduro (Angola), Soukouss/ dombolo, Rhumba (Congo Bassin), Afro-Pop, Kalindula (Zambia), and Pantsula (South Africa). Alexx is well known in the African Aus- tralian dance community; teaching local classes in Perth since 2013, guest teaching in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide as well as hosting and collaborating with professional international dancers and choreographers from Jamaica, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland and Angola.
Perun Bonser is a Ngarluma filmmaker with a background in contemporary dance. As an accomplished writer and director with over a decade of experience, Perun is passionate about telling authentic stories that challenge audiences and empower First Nations communities. Perun has written and directed several short films including horror anthology DARK PLACE - THE SHORE (ABC), BLIGHT (ABC), FIGHTER (NITV), and SHADOWS OF DISPLACEMENT (NITV). His films have screened at a multitude of film fes- tivals, including CinefestOz, Hot Docs, imagineNATIVE, St Tropez Inter - national Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, and Melbourne In- ternational Film Festival to name a few. Perun directed Prospero Productions’ immersive dome film STAR DREAMING and wrote for AFL documentary NOONGAR FOOTY MAGIC and ABC web-series AUSSIE RANGERS. Perun and his partner were selected to participate in talent accelerator lab Imagine Impact in 2020 where they developed ONE OF THE GOOD ONES. In 2021, Perun came on board as Series Director and Co-Writer of OUR LAW - Season 1 (NITV/SBS) which is currently streaming on SBS On Demand. In 2022, Perun was selected as AIDC’s inaugural recipient of the Indigenous Documentary Placement at the ABC in Sydney. Perun is currently Series Director, Story Producer and Co-Writer of OUR LAW - Season 2 (NITV/SBS).
DESIGNER VIDEOARTIST
Multidisciplinary designer and artist based in Boorloo, Taje Singh is inquisitive, creative and romantic. He currently pursues a fulltime free- lance career in the world of design and art. Taje’s pas- sion for narrative and storytell- ing translates into many design forms such as graphic design, film, photography and interior design. Inspired by memory, identity, place and human experiences, he strives for three values in his personal and professional life; purpose, perspective and balance.
CO-PRODUCER
Sukhjit is a writer, performer, theatre-maker, filmmaker, and producer based in Boorloo. Her work as a multi-form artist for the last ten years has been rec- ognised at the Performing Arts WA Awards (2020), Mona Brand Writing Awards (2022), WA Multicul- tural Awards (2022) and Young Aus- tralian Sikh of the Year (2023). Her passion for storytelling began as a finalist in the Australian Poet- ry Slam (2014), semi-finalist on Aus- tralia’s Got Talent (2016) and winner of The Moth GrandSLAM (2019). Sukhjit spoke at TedxUWA (2017), TedxNewtown (2019) and has supported Missy Higgins and L-FRESH the Lion on their national tours. Her poetry and community arts projects have led her to tour globally and across her nation. Sukhjit premiered her sell-out theatre show FULLY SIKH with Barking Gecko Theatre Company and Black Swan Theatre Company (2019). Since then, she has been developing her comedy series WHAT WOULD SUKI DO? with support from ABC TV and is currently producing A HAIRY TALE, a documentary exploring female body hair. Sukhjit and her partner, Perun Bonser, were selected to develop their rom-com series ONE OF THE GOOD ONES at Ron Howard & Brian Grazer’s talent lab, Impact Australia (2020). They premiered their video installation work BETWEEN BREATHS at Goolugatup Heathcote Art Gallery (2022) and the work toured in 4A Contemporary Asian Art Centre’s BUSH DIWAN (2022). Sukhjit has been a story-telling trainer at the Centre for Stories and has produced storytelling and theatre projects for adults and school students. COLLECTABLES, her debut hip-hop single is now streaming on all platforms. Sukhjit is the Executive Director of The Blue Room Theatre.
From Naarm (Melbourne) but now calling Walyalup (Fremantle) home, Joel graduated from Deakin University with a Degree in Contemporary Arts, working as a freelance actor for a number of years, they returned to study to complete a Mas- ters of Education at Melbourne University. They then worked for a variety of non-for-profits as a Teaching Artist, such as Western Edge Youth Arts, while also working for numerous Arts Organisations as a Assistant Producer and Education Assistant, such as The Malthouse Theatre. Joel was the Outreach Coordinator at Arts Centre Melbourne for many years, working on Access & Inclusion initiatives, Community Engagement projects and Education programs. Before moving West Joel was the first Senior Performing Arts Programmer at a new Arts Centre in Melbourne’s south-east called Bunjil Place, experimenting with different types of collaborative community producing and co-design programming. Joel is a spoken word poet and creative producer, their pronouns are he/they/him, Joel grew up on Boon Wurrung land.
CO-PRODUCER
Hidden in Plain Sight is an experiment, it is an act of trust in artists, a risk - like all art, delving into what art spaces could be. A space where set and prop, costume and custom, expectations and tradition can be left behind. So in its place, the soul or it remains, exposed, for all to see. Story telling.
A night of many art forms, a multidisciplinary collection of Perth creatives, who have stories to tell, whose voices deserve our fullest attention, who will take centre stage, demand the room, and fill our hearts with words and music and movement.
We build mausoleums for the “traditional” arts, the Opera, the Ballet, Shakespeare, we wear our finest clothes, sip champagne, and they sell expensive tickets to see old stories get told (again)… but just for some. Those who can enter such spaces. Yet, they’re still just stories, words written by writers, words performed by performers, with an add of glitz and glamour, privilege and production, status and sponsors, they’re all still just stories.
This multidisciplinary spoken word theatre event centres poets speaking their truth, so please be aware their raw and honest emotions may trigger some audience members, as they explore a diverse range of culturalsocial-political topics with compassion and courage.
Poetry often explores the human at its most real, aiming to name the unspoken, to explore it, to heal from it, and to reduce its power over us. This is the potential of spoken word, a relationship between the writer, the reader and the listeners, and we know depending on the current season of our lives, we are not always ready to hear every truth.
We wish to encourage all audience members to be kind to themselves, if at any time you are feeling overwhelmed you may leave the space without judgement. This evening is a night of storytelling and sharing, of safety and trust, and we hope you feel welcomed to our space.
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EBONY
Noonook Djiti djiti. (You, Willywagtail)
Nidja yeyi. (here, now.)
Djinang djiti djiti, nidja yeyi (look, willywagtail, here, now.) Dwonkaniny djiti djiti, nidja yeyi. (listen willywagtail, here, now)
Kaatidjin Djiti djiti, Nidja Yeyi. Settle those wings and let ngaarnk(s)(mother/sun) rays kiss your feathery cheeks. Feel her breath as she whispers soft lullabies. Hear boorna(trees) wowakiny(breathing) her song. The songs of koolbardies(magpies), kaka’s(kookaburras), and you.
Djiti djiti(willywagtail).
Wowak djiti djiti, nidja yeyi. (breath, willywagtail, here now) Baranginy djiti djiti, nidja yeyi. (gather willywagtail, here now) Feel the tickles of boodjar(country) as you shuffle on her belly. The tickles gently saying, you are here. Now. Noonook djiti djiti, nidja yeyi. (you, willywagtail, here now) Feel her caress your heel, pushing noonook kwadjet koorl. (you forward)
Kaatijin djiti djiti, noonook birdi nidja yeyi. (understand willywagtail, you, here now.) Gather the wind under your wings and fly djiti djiti(willywagtail). High up in the woorl(sky). Don’t be winyarn djiti djiti, boodjar(country) will catch your fall. Surf the wind. Break through the koorndarnt.(clouds)
Inhale the woyran.(blue)
Remember you djiti djiti.(willywagtail)
Nidja yeyi.(here, now.)
Noonook djiti djiti, moorditj bird. (you willywagtail, strong bird) Kaatijin djiti djiti, your moort, both noitj ba yeyi and your koort. (Understand willywagtail, your family, both passed on and here, your heart)
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Kaatitijin djiti djiti, nidja yeyi. (understand willywagtail, here now) Djinang noonook maara, noonook ngoop birdi baranginy birdiya ngoop. (look at your hands, the blood in your veins, coming from warriors)
Kaatijin djiti djiti. (understand willywagtail) Nidja yeyi. (here, now)
Nganyangy koort mirliny ngany koornt
Koordarm nyanyangy boodjar
Wer noonook, Nganyangy koort djook
Noonook nidja
Yoowart nidja
Ngaitj mirliny noonook nidja
Nidja yeyi
Nidja kalyakoorl
Noonook Wirun nidja yeyi
nganyany kalyakoorl djook
My heart is longing for my home
Dreaming of my country
And of you
My heart sister
You’re here
But you’re not here
I wish you were here
Here now
Here forever
Your spirit is with me now
My forever sister
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JONI
To the girl I see at gigs sometimes
To the girl at backyard shows, less shy every time
To the girls who threw the bricks that built the houses
To the girls who come through my checkout
And we get all nervous
And big beaming smiles
To see ourselves just living
To my sisters of transition, transcendence and transperth
All pink and blue and white
On hormones, on fire, on their own path
To the girl who burns punk
Whose pages blaze with irreverent gayness
Our sweat on the dong fang fish pub mosh pit floor
To the youtube girls and the instagram girls and the writer’s festival girls
and the girl who fell into the night
Librarians of trans misogynistic implications in the discourse
You weave the myth and mock it
To Kurt Cobain, probably
To the girl next door and the girl next door and the friend of a friend I never heard about before
To the doctor who taught my doctor and gave hell to gatekeepers
To the girls in men’s prison, in 4chan suicide campaigns, in violent homes, in early graves
To the girl who asked to shared a smoke in my old body’s safety on her first time out in a skirt
We go all the way back to the empty page
To the girl who melted my mind with her intergalactic voice
To the girl who drums around town, who serenaded my situationship
And to the girl who fell into the night
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To the really hot girl I wanted to fuck on my birthday
To the girl who was my first boy before we both knew
To the girl with the chaos tatt with the anarchist A right… there
We were trapped in an endlessly recurring sapphic poly paradox
Tequila and a freeway mattress
I broke your heart between my legs
To the girl who stormed out of my kinky national anthem
Who I’m told has a home among the veterans
To the girl who’s wife wouldn’t let her dress up to host the fundraiser
She wore a scowl all night and you wore eyeliner and pride
To the girl I fell for as we stacked the shelves
You cleaned up my shattered grieving olive jars
Backstabbed by your blood
You ranted transgender rituals and moved in only two weeks in love
We are the truth of each other
To the other poets’ daughter, I saw myself in you,
then and now and between our awakenings
I dance on your grave like nobody’s watching And you scream along in hopeful nightmares
To the girls who never knew
To the girls who pass, who don’t pass, who will pass it on
To the girls targeted much harder by male hate than this white civvie
To the long list of girls we’ve lost
To the girl I see at gigs sometimes
You look stunning tonight
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You are not a novelty
You are not a failed man
You are not a thief
You are stunning
Sorry I’m a bit awkward
A flower on fire
Just so stoked to see you
To see us
To see our grace and courage
Thank you
Your body will be free, I promise
Your heart will be full, I promise
Your rage will be holy, I promise
Your hope will be pure, I promise
Your life will be lived,
I promise
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Unravel my DNA, unfurl each strand, go slowly, s l o w l y. Carefully, please. I feel every pull when your hand draws back. Don’t ask too much about
how each particle formed I wasn’t there when it was. You use a tender hold between thumb and forefinger
I’m weeping
From deep inside my molecules Come forth the stars, Sprinkle dust on your skin
“Describe it to me”
“I can’t”
A film of tears
Coat his eyes
Do I trust you?
To see inside of you like this?
On the day I am bravest
I empty out my Sundays.
I point the knife carve a hole in each one until the calendar where they sit drains all over my carpet.
VUMA
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Wringing dry the worship that used to be. I shred the pages of scriptures coated in my identity. Cry a riverbed and baptise all that is old until the pages are submerged ink bleeding.
Washing away who I used to be. On the Sunday I am my lonliest, I gather with others Yearning to glorify Black womanhood on blank canvases. Preparing a holy communion around a trestle table drawing the shape of our world. Sunday service in session, gather here. Our prayer is shared laughter unearthed from our ribcages. Reciting poems on freedom conjuring new magic, imprinting their spells on my flesh. On the Sunday when I dream again, I offer a prayer in slumber.
Tangled in sheets, robed to honour my rest.
I stretch out my limbs in praise for Sundays. My Sundays.
Peeling my eyes, blinking through a film of tears coaxed by my revelation: Today, I am free.
I am no one’s woman but my own.
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It is midnight. By the river. We are shivering. Goosebumps, kisses and your beautiful smile.
I am not scared of falling. But I might be scared you would not notice.
Pain will make you think about life in a totally different perspective. Are you ready?
AYO
If you look into my eyes, you could witness my heart racing with heavy love.
If only you would tell me what is in your mind. Maybe I will understand.
I, too, will always remember the day you told me you will always be there.
It feels like I have been on a rollercoaster of our memories. I’m getting tired.
Hold me tight, do not leave me, she said. Yet, she left without a goodbye.
Your dangerous words hurt like fire; they keep burning my ears. You are a Dragon.
If you see my shades on, then I’m trying to hide pains in my eyes.
I feel their hurtful words chasing me down the hole like I’m the mouse Jerry.
His ex stabbed him with words emotionally. He got severe trauma from his heart wounds.
His lover left him drowning in a pool of tears even though he couldn’t swim.
Her sweet voice rang through my mind all night long. I could not stop snoozing.
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His lover left him drowning in a pool of tears even though he couldn’t swim.
Her sweet voice rang through my mind all night long. I could not stop snoozing.
They stare at me and their eyes stripped me of what’s left of my confidence.
And just as I was about to start falling for you. You began to withdraw.
Sometimes you need to be willing to let someone go, to see if they care.
I wish I could tell you how much I think about you in a day.
I keep thinking of letting go and it hurts more as each day goes by.
You say I have nice eyes and lips, then act surprised when I catch feelings.
I do not regret ever kissing you that night. I should not just have continued.
I have been thinking about you lately. Thinking about what we both could have been.
I am scared of looking into your eyes. I just might fall in love soon.
The only thing that would make me happy is seeing a smile on your face.
I must be lucky, because how did you end up falling in love with me?
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Our love has been great so far, but now it is time to move on.
Even though it’s raining men, she chose me to be the apple of her eyes.
I saw fire in her eyes and it grew even stronger as I moved closer.
If only you knew how my heart starts to beat everytime you walk past me.
You make me feel like a star but it’s sad that only oc- curs at night.
I feel ashamed of myself every-time I think of how much I hurt you previously.
Why do you only call me when you feel lonely, sad or need some loving?
I’m here pretending like I don’t care just so you wouldn’t see I am hurt.
Afire love, Afire love, where are you? Afire love, afire love, I feel you now.
Even though you knew you were wrong, your ego wouldn’t let you admit your sins.
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RUSHIL
My higher self says “Take your time, they’ll hear it when it’s ready. Even if they don’t, That’s why the head that wears the crown is heavy.”
Expose yourself through phone screens
Complaining and sweating
Wish someone explained to me
You just keep moving on and dead it
To few I am indebted
Pulled me back from armageddon
Mutual respect
Something you can’t exchange for a percentage
The minds a complex structure
With no room for new tenants
So your application for opinions
Just gon’ get rejected
In this life we swim in circles
In circles
My mic rhymes in cursive
Recursive
Got all that I need, not what I want And god bless the riders on the hunt
And I will wait
Hold my bow and sword
Til’ my brothers find a way Of their own accord
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My lower self connects me
To my base and beast desires
Acknowledge as I roam this place
I owe my peace to others
Reminds me that one day
When we expire
I’ll become the grass
That feeds the stag
And that’s the way we keep the cycle going
Never take more than you need
That’s how you beat survival mode
Cuz greed will have you eat your brother’s flesh
And gnawing at the bone
Keep your gaze ahead
Ignore the silly hares
They’re darting in and out of pocket
Just to maximise their profit margins
I promise
The answer lies inside cooperation
Ain’t no corporation
Gon put your needs before their sacred dollar
In the temple turning tables
While you sit and squabble
Prostrate at the altar
I give my all in the offering
In this life we swim in circles
In circles
My mic rhymes in cursive
Recursive
Got all that I need, not what I want
And god bless the riders on the hunt
And I will wait
Hold my bow and sword
Til’ my brothers find a way
Of their own accord
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And I will wait
Hold my bow and sword
Til’ my brothers find a way
We can’t make it out alone.
Let my eyes
Reflect the light of the Sun
May my soul speak
The depths of the moon
Heart on my sleeve
There’s blood on my shirt
Pardon my speech
If I’m starting to slur
Starting to heal
Showing where I was hurt
Part of belief
Seeing I wasn’t perfect
Did that mean I wasn’t worthy of love?
Could it be it was all so simple then?
Simplicity seemed the folly of the simple man
Discontent was the seed, think you bigger than
The least of these, I fall to my knees
And pray I see again
Let my eyes
Reflect the light of the Sun
May my soul speak
The depths of the moon
Let my tongue bring the heat of the Sun
May the truth be relief from the moon
I have seen where the leaves of this tree fall
Eve calls to her atoms, why’d she ever been born?
Truth lies outside of the verses
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But this was the wisdom whispered by serpents (Om)
First came the word
Second came manifest duty in a verb (Be)
That’s the whole of the law of existence
Simplicity was the mission
But third came form
That for which jaws hit the floor
For which man still proclaims war
The sands of time shift
And life becomes choice:
Race to bear arms or keep your embrace warm?
Fourth came might
The power to stay hands
Or raze whole village
Power to make stands
Save the innocents
Or blood-stain the whole land
Will you keep it militant
And claim grace in amen?
See it all went down
At that first emanation
When a particle burst forth
And started vibrating
And a cosmos of secrets in a moment floods open
Your wisdom though whispered was best left unspoken
My child you are god and it’s sinful creations
The tide, the moon, your own cause and causation
Every wave that takes shape in an infinite ocean
You are proof of perfection, you are no-thing worth noting
Chidananda Rupah Shivo’ham Shivo’ham
Come rest your eyes from the worlds of illusion
Chidananda Rupah Shivo’ham Shivo’ham
O silent perfection, the circle unbroken.
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Space to write your poem…
What do you hide from sight?...
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