Tag: miriam miles
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Breaking up with productivity
Dear Productivity, I am breaking up with you. Sorry, it’s not me, it’s you. In fact, I am breaking up with the band and going solo. Please let Time Management, Goal Setting, Getting Things Done and Busyness know while I appreciate their companionship, I have to move on.
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God is still speaking
I have been through many seasons of hearing from God and this one is certainly one of the more challenging ones! But please be encouraged by this. On January 12th I was in church and felt prompted to write something down. This is what I felt God say to me, and I thought it was…
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Compassion
Life is but a choice or two…
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The Colliding
Exploration of The Colliding and how this poem came about and what it means.
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Poles
Exploration of the poem, Poles, published in poetry collection Phoenix.
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Scorched
On the train to Canberra the soil drowns in sunshine and not a lick of water can be found to quench the thirsty land.
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Polymorphic Harmony
It is a gift we humans have, to be able to ponder our own thoughts
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Hail
She throws herself down in great torrents, aching to crack it open and she gulps,
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Heat
It’s not my fault, she implores as she flings herself across the tinder licking up the final drips of moisture, crying over every molecule ignited by her rage as her heart burns the land,
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Unafraid
I was fearless once. When my words spilled out recklessly, wild, untended – a garden let loose. Nothing else mattered but the words as they grew from my deep and flowered, majestic in their exuberance.
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The power of thinking for yourself
When we believe someone or something has authority over us, we find ourselves saying we ‘have to, we must, we should, we ought to’. We are giving this something or someone else the power over our time, energy, resources and directio
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Looking with eyes closed
This post does not pull any punches. It’s about homelessness, the reality of self and personal agendas. It is not targeted at anyone but myself and the experiences I have recently had on this topic. I realise it may not sit well with people. Please consider your responses before you comment. I appreciate you reading my…
Miriam E. Miles 