Merry Christmas

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

Poverty Doesn’t Discriminate

I read your application
Of a scholarship
You said
The scholarship
Would help you
Get new stationery
You said
You long to have
New pencils

I remember
In grade school
I wrapped paper
Around pencil stubs
To make them last longer

That’s four decades ago
In China
Back then
A third world country

We are in 2023
You are in Australia
Facing the same poverty
I can’t help
But cry

Time Apart

The space between us
Allows
Anger to be exhausted
Resentment to be overdone
Sadness to be evaporised
Memory to be filtered
And love to return

Uninspired

The nib is dry
Scratches through
Paper thin motivation
Leaving incoherent words

Suddent Panic

今天
我突然
心惊
在想
如果
我死了
你不知道
怎么办

后来
我想了想
觉得
没事
反正
我现在
生活得
怎样
你也是
不知道

Suddenly
I
Panic
Thinking
What if
I don’t know
About your passing

Then
I
Shrug
Realising
Nowadays
I don’t know
Anything about you
Anyway

Book Launch

Virginia Bucknell and Cassa Bassa Book Launch 7 December.

Virginia and I are having our book launch for “A Collection of Poetry and Paintings” next month in a local library. And our book will go into the library catalogue. We are both very excited.

Photo at the book pre-launch sale.

I Don’t Know Your God

I have never hated anyone or anything, but I hate wars, and I hate more about wars fought in God’s name.

Rulers! Are your sons and daughters in the battlefield fighting alongside the innocent youth who are someone’s sons and daughters? Are you in the frontline to witness bloodshed and taste the metallic blood? Are you fearing for your own life?

There is no winner in wars, there are casualties, widows, fatherless, motherless, PTSD affected addictions, homelessness, destruction of families, deterioration of society.

The God you serve and fight for, it is not the God that I know, love and serve. What kind of parent would take delight in their children’s rivalry? What kind of King would be fuelled by their ego, insecurity and fear to watch their people suffer?

My God is gracious, righteous, merciful, loving and full of compassion. I grief for my God for every life lost in wars.