Shards - The 1 Poem Podcast of Cameron Semmens

Shards - The 1 Poem Podcast of Cameron Semmens

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  • Shards - 13 - The Joy Finch
    wait un-fisted
    with all your openness seeded with hope
    and joy will visit
    like a finch from the dark understory
    and joy will return
    with a sudden flit and flash of colour
    no matter what sadly
    you will be unhappy at times
    and all those around you
    and all those you love
    will be unhappy at times
    but equally no matter what
    joy will visit
    fleeting fine-feathered
    it will swoop in from the corner of your vision
    arrive when you least expect
    did you know
    the finch can only flourish
    with access to dense undergrowth?
    perhaps
    all the thorny tangled mess
    of unhappiness in this world
    is just
    a frame a shield a home
    for this flighty little bird
    no matter what
    joy will visit joy will return
    but it can’t stay
    it can’t stay
    if you grasp for it
    and try to hold onto it it’ll be gone
    even before your fingers unfurl
    so just be still
    and joy will at some point
    arrive at your side
    ‘til then
    wait un-fisted
    with all your openness seeded with hope
    4 min
  • Shards - 11 - Singularity
    Before we enter
    knowing
    we are always
    spinning
    there’s an astronomy in us all
    that speaks more of space
    than light
    and we are spun through in-betweens
    until caught in the gravity
    of that
    single
    question
    that black hole
    at galaxy’s centre
    that mystery
    so heavy
    and pivotal
    everything
    revolves around it
    – everything –
    and the closer we get to this
    ultimate horizon
    (this final event)
    the more we are bathed in answers
    illuminations
    that stretch us
    beyond
    our capacity to comprehend
    until finally
    we enter into
    the ultimate
    infinite
    intimate
    embrace
    3 min
  • Shards - 14 - Upon Holding A Brand New Person
    Give melodies to everything you say,
    new life
    must be sung into this world.
    Let your arms be a lush valley.
    With syrupy stares
    sway like a grove of maples in a gentle breeze.
    Watch their eyes.
    Whisper ‘open sesame’.
    Keep watching.
    Study the red river deltas on their eyelids;
    and in your mind, follow these tiny rivulets
    to their surging source.
    Keep watching.
    Blow gently
    on the bouquet of dandelions
    that is their face.
    Stoke their downy hair
    as if it were the ermine fringe
    of a sovereign’s crown.
    Smell them
    like you would a new-blooming rose,
    aware that thriving
    comes with fertilising –
    the scent of poo, itself
    a miracle.
    Be the librarian.
    This soft-covered story
    with blank-page eyes
    shelved on your forearms
    needs your shushing.
    Quick, sharp shushes for boisterous visitors.
    Soft, slow shushes for lulling and loving.
    Let your sighs be fairy floss;
    let your hums be jester plums.
    Surrender your vocab
    and fill your mouth with colourful marbles.
    This warm body
    in the corona of your love
    carries heat passed on through generations;
    it is the hot tip of an iceberg –
    the cold bodies
    of a myriad humans
    the submerged mass
    of traits and immunities and adaptations.
    Hold this vital,
    restless tip
    carefully,
    prayerfully,
    it can burn through
    flesh and future.
    4 min

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Welcome to Shards – a glinting fragment of transparent truth to flash in your mind's eye or cut you open. Irregularly, a fresh poem – a poetic pause in your day to make you think or smile or be…

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