<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Kiwi Poet</title><description>Poetry by Stephen Douglas of New Zealand — reflections on nature, faith and life, shared from Lower Hutt, Wellington.</description><link>https://poet.kiwi/</link><item><title>testing publishing 11 march 2026</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/testing-publishing-11-march-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/testing-publishing-11-march-2026/</guid><description>Developer is testing again at 14 June 2026</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:25:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Credo</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/credo-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/credo-2026/</guid><description>For the search of joy. . .</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:30:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Advent Star</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/advent-star/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/advent-star/</guid><description>A coming into being - the arrival - The seer, Isaiah, spoke of the Lord&apos;s house being built, above the hills</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:28:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fourth Watch</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/fourth-watch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/fourth-watch/</guid><description>Much can be written and spoken about the Fourth Watch, a division of night</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:53:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Outrageous Grace</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/outrageous-grace/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/outrageous-grace/</guid><description>While driving through the countryside, viewing farms, schools and houses</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 02:58:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bulbs - The Garden of Life</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/bulbs-the-garden-of-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/bulbs-the-garden-of-life/</guid><description>I saw my garden today and noticed my bulbs poking through......</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 01:41:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Poem within a Poem</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/poem-within-a-poem-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/poem-within-a-poem-1/</guid><description>Waves crash upon the rocks - the sight, the sound comes alive to me. . . .</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 02:41:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rhythm of Falling &amp; others</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-rhythm-of-falling-others/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-rhythm-of-falling-others/</guid><description>you burst into the scene in spring - fresh and full - and slowly, through the passage of time, you begin to brown.</description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:05:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I AM WHO I AM</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/i-am-who-i-am/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/i-am-who-i-am/</guid><description>The grain of sand upon the shore. From dust to a breathing soul</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:07:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Journey Home</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/a-journey-home/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/a-journey-home/</guid><description>Can I return home? Can I revisit my youth - trace once more the years of wonder</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:23:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Takapau - RSA, ANZAC 2025</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/takapau-rsa-anzac-2025/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/takapau-rsa-anzac-2025/</guid><description>They gave up their tomorrow, so we can have today.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 08:26:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Track &apos;n&apos; Trace - Life&apos;s Path Seen by God</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/track-n-trace-lifes-path-seen-by-god-1a/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/track-n-trace-lifes-path-seen-by-god-1a/</guid><description>There is a right track, O Lord; point it out for me to follow.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:26:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Power of Three</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-power-of-three/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-power-of-three/</guid><description>There is a rhythm in the world,  A grouping older than the seas.  As whispered through eternity—</description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 08:39:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stay Connected - Abide</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/stay-connected-abide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/stay-connected-abide/</guid><description>Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (Jesus; John 15v&apos;s4&amp;7)</description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:13:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Alone......not a-lone #2</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/alone-not-a-lone-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/alone-not-a-lone-2/</guid><description>W hen my day is spent and</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:43:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mistakes Happen</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/mistakes-happen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/mistakes-happen/</guid><description>Oh LORD, I&apos;ve done it again, I&apos;ve gone the wrong way</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 07:14:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>New Year &apos;25</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/new-year-25/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/new-year-25/</guid><description>As the old begins to decay, and the new takes place today.</description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 09:29:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Advent Candles</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/advent-candles/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/advent-candles/</guid><description>These candles remind-and challenge-us to be........</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 03:51:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Don&apos;t Look Back</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/dont-look-back/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/dont-look-back/</guid><description>1 \ &quot; Don&apos;t look back.&quot;\ T oday, the preacher spoke:\ a bout a man named Lot\ w ho lived in the city of Sodom.\ H ow angels knocked on his door\ t o warn that fire would fall,\ f or the people&apos;s way are evil.\ &quot; Take your wife and family,\ f lee from this place\ a nd don&apos;t look back!&quot;</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 03:13:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SPRING - Spring is nature&apos;s annual fling</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/spring-spring-is-natures-annual-fling/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/spring-spring-is-natures-annual-fling/</guid><description>Spring is nature&apos;s annual fling</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>the Flower Show</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-flower-show/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-flower-show/</guid><description>I picked some flowers on a sunny day</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:28:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>the Beauty of Being Me</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-beauty-of-being-me/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-beauty-of-being-me/</guid><description>t he Beauty of Being Me\ by Stephen Douglas</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jul 2024 04:54:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hutt River</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/hutt-river/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/hutt-river/</guid><description>T he mountains melt like wax before the Lord,</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 08:26:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>the Way</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-way-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-way-1/</guid><description>t he Way</description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2024 04:44:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rainbow in the Clouds</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/rainbow-in-the-clouds-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/rainbow-in-the-clouds-1/</guid><description>My soul skipped with real delight\ After the pain, a rainbow in the clouds!\ I ask, “For me and not the crowds?”\ Its appearance makes such a sight!\ Marching across the sky, side to side\ Like a soldier in colourful stride.\</description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2024 02:48:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What am I made for?</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/what-am-i-made-for/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/what-am-i-made-for/</guid><description>W hat am I made for?</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:54:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>diamonds in the dUSt</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/diamonds-in-the-dust/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/diamonds-in-the-dust/</guid><description>O ur worth unknown,</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 07:18:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>True Love</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/true-love/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/true-love/</guid><description>T rue Love</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 08:11:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Maintenance</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/maintenance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/maintenance/</guid><description>Latin; manu tenere &quot;hold in the hand&quot;</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2024 06:40:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Little Things</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/little-things/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/little-things/</guid><description>W hich accumulate to make a whole.</description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:49:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Summer is Near and Stay Wide-eyed</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/summer-is-near-and-stay-wide-eyed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/summer-is-near-and-stay-wide-eyed/</guid><description>Rest is good for the body and soul. It regenerates energy and control.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:45:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>&quot;Accept My Thanks&quot;</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/accept-my-thanks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/accept-my-thanks/</guid><description>Accept My Thanks</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2023 06:07:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SILENCE</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/silence/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/silence/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:44:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>C-o-M-e</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/c-o-m-e/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/c-o-m-e/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:29:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Friend-Ship</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/friend-ship/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/friend-ship/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 08:29:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Credo</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/credo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/credo/</guid><description>F or the search of joy, no need to wander far\ B ecause happiness resides by your side, and\ B eauty is not too far, it&apos;s even nearby.</description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 05:07:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who is Really Counting?</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/who-is-really-counting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/who-is-really-counting/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:48:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>An Ode to Grief</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/an-ode-to-grief/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/an-ode-to-grief/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:40:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>SPARROW</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/sparrow/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/sparrow/</guid><description>\ T hen he spoke his observation:</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 08:03:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Whakatāne River</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/whakat%C4%81ne-river/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/whakat%C4%81ne-river/</guid><description>Wairaka, the daughter of Toroa, captain of the Mataatua canoe, uttered the words &quot;Me whakatāne au i ahau&quot; (I must act like a man) when she saved the Mataatua after it came adrift.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2023 01:08:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ANZAC Day 2023</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/anzac-day-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/anzac-day-2023/</guid><description>ANZAC Day 2023 - at the going down of\ the sun, we will remember them.</description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:17:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A New Day has dawned!</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/a-new-day-has-dawned/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/a-new-day-has-dawned/</guid><description>Easter Sunday 2023.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2023 04:31:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Christ our Pass-over Lamb</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/christ-our-passover-lamb/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/christ-our-passover-lamb/</guid><description>Passover blood upon the cross from, An innocent young man</description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:31:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What am I Sowing........</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/what-am-i-sowing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/what-am-i-sowing/</guid><description>For I am sowing ‘The Kingdom’ seed to ensure I have a good foundation so trials and tribulations will not knock me! *Quote:* *we decide our tomorrow by our sowing today*</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2023 04:06:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I rest in Thee</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/i-rest-in-thee/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/i-rest-in-thee/</guid><description>I rest in Thee</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:23:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I don&apos;t know</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/i-dont-know/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/i-dont-know/</guid><description>I read Wislawa&apos;s Nobel Prize Lecture this morning and the poet’s phrase: &quot;I don&apos;t know&quot; got me!</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2023 07:25:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sun-set - How do I say Goodbye</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/sun-set-how-do-i-say-goodbye/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/sun-set-how-do-i-say-goodbye/</guid><description>My son, we said goodbye to you today, just as the sun-set behind the distant hills.</description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 08:58:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Waiting....</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/waiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/waiting/</guid><description>We wait for many things while at the same time we are doing. Busy doing this or that, yet deep down we know we are waiting… An activity, an engagement of thought to proceed, to produce an action. While we nurse the spirit of waiting there is the flow of emotion, feelings when in reality it is the art or perception of waiting which engages us.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 06:32:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>RAIN</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/rain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/rain/</guid><description>RAIN</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2023 02:37:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Courage to Go . . . 2023</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/courage-to-go-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/courage-to-go-2023/</guid><description>\ Courage to Go. . . 2023</description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2023 01:55:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hopefulness</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/hopefulness/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/hopefulness/</guid><description>the sea of hopefulness</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2023 23:44:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Are you weary</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/are-you-weary/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/are-you-weary/</guid><description>Does verse one describe your feelings which could be physical,</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2022 02:05:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Colour and Beauty Show</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/colour-and-beauty-show-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/colour-and-beauty-show-1/</guid><description>Colour and Beauty Show</description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:12:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Akitio Rocks</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/akitio-rocks/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/akitio-rocks/</guid><description>akitio - doing something slowly</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 06:22:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The power of Light &amp; Salt</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-power-of-light-salt/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-power-of-light-salt/</guid><description>You’re a speck of light in the darkened sky, you’re a pinch of salt in a tasteless world,</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 03:58:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Psalm 46 - A song of praise, God is our Daddy!</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/psalm-46-a-song-of-praise-god-is-our-daddy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/psalm-46-a-song-of-praise-god-is-our-daddy/</guid><description>Daddy is so powerful his voice can shake the earth.</description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:07:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Complete</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/complete-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/complete-1/</guid><description>Scripture describes me like a sheep gone astray, going my own way.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:27:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Change</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/change/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/change/</guid><description>*the single standard rose  pokes its red nose right past the sill, to be right in my view!*</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:41:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rain Again</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/rain-again/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/rain-again/</guid><description>Today I plan to walk with the rain and ask, “Would you like to come too?” I’m dressed with coat and leggings so, why not come and play the game?</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 05:34:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>God Knew.</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/god-knew/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/god-knew/</guid><description>From the beginning, before substance was formed\ Wisdom (Holy Spirit) was there alongside as the helper.\ Before galaxies and earth was established, God knew.</description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:28:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Full Throttle</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/full-throttle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/full-throttle/</guid><description>I love my Harley darling, she’s slick &amp; clean,\ she beams as i ride along the highway,\ her low slung body takes the curvy bends\ as other riders turn their heads to see\ how i lean her low; enough not to go topsy-turvy.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 05:44:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>There is something about. .</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/there-is-something-about/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/there-is-something-about/</guid><description>Poem &amp; Photo by Stephen Douglas © stephen c douglas, 17 April ’22 for kiwi.poet There is something about. . . a nice clear day no cloud in the sky, no wind to fly. All my cares, I now commit to prayer, as I rest them in Jesus’ name.\ There is something about. . . a picture of me young ‘n’ wild, a hearty smile. All my hopes centred as a wee child, as I develop a sense of life’s worth.\ There is something about. . . a look at the past in the light of today’s growth. All my self-doubt and fear, didn’t last, as I learnt in light, we’re all the same.\ There is something about a. . . bird in flight an ant hill &amp; a crocodile’s tail. All our knowledge equals nought, belief and action seal their tale.\ There is something about. . . a new baby’s cry it tells you and I we’re fairly made. All our doubts and questions need fly, as we have no answer to its DNA line.\ There is something about. . . the end of a day no sunset the same, no star alike. All my cares are being sorted, as I apply my knowledge with hope…..\ There is something about. . . a trusting soul which brings the Father much delight!</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2022 04:54:28 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>a journey</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/a-journey/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/a-journey/</guid><description>in between there are footprints in the sand</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 01:06:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>For Joanie</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/for-joanie/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/for-joanie/</guid><description>* Give me a pale pink blossom   Framed by a bright blue sky,   Any day of the week my dear ~   Before we need to depart awhile</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2022 06:37:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Valentine&apos;s Day</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/valentines-day/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/valentines-day/</guid><description>**Barriers, be they physical or emotional circular in style or concrete in shape.**</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:59:05 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protest Upon The Lawn</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/protest-upon-the-lawn/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/protest-upon-the-lawn/</guid><description>Next, there is the task ......of sowing, a bright new lawn</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 23:36:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We Listen......</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/we-listen/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/we-listen/</guid><description>We listen to the streams, to preserve their fragile wetlands</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2022 21:52:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Great Journey Starts With A Small Step</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/a-great-journey-starts-with-a-small-step/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/a-great-journey-starts-with-a-small-step/</guid><description>Let me come, to the end of my journey, with the sunshine on my face</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 07:23:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Field of Colours</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/field-of-colours/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/field-of-colours/</guid><description>....colours are seen, but what is not is their history</description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:58:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Change Comes to Change Us</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/change-comes-to-change-us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/change-comes-to-change-us/</guid><description>I saw myself to be like a little seed dropped into the crevice of a mighty rock and there I was bound to be, so I set about allowing myself to be free by responding to the impulse to grow,</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:41:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Xmas poem, 2021</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/xmas-poem-2021/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/xmas-poem-2021/</guid><description>It&apos;s this time of year again / when Santa and his reindeer come....</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2022 02:39:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>l-o-c-k-d-o-w-n</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/l-o-c-k-d-o-w-n/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/l-o-c-k-d-o-w-n/</guid><description>Memories dance about inside my head, telling me not to cry</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:50:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>My Glory and the Lifter of My Head</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/my-glory-and-the-lifter-of-my-head/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/my-glory-and-the-lifter-of-my-head/</guid><description>You LORD, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts up my head</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 23:37:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Two Hands</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/two-hands/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/two-hands/</guid><description>As I thank You for my life. \ Help me to go about blessed \ With your Spirit&apos;s insight \ And hear You affirm I’m your beloved.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 03:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Where Will The Bellbird Sing?</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/where-will-the-bellbird-sing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/where-will-the-bellbird-sing/</guid><description>\“Where will the bellbird sing…… if the heart of the flax bush is gone?”\</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 02:22:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>As a flower grows.....</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/as-a-flower-grows/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/as-a-flower-grows/</guid><description>As a flower grows......</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:25:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lake Nga-Roto</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/lake-nga-roto/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/lake-nga-roto/</guid><description>Lake Nga-Roto by Stephen Douglas</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2022 22:37:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stones in my Hand</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/stones-in-my-hand/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/stones-in-my-hand/</guid><description>Seven stones in my hand Where have these stones been? Who has stepped on them?</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:33:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Meandering Pathway</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-meandering-pathway/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-meandering-pathway/</guid><description>a Testimony\ is more than what I say\ it is who I am!</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 06:32:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Red Lanterns</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/red-lanterns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/red-lanterns/</guid><description>\ Red Lanterns,</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:54:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Waves</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/waves/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/waves/</guid><description>WAVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stephen Douglas Waves pounding upon the shore, rising tide creeps up the shore\ wetting rocks, stones and sand yet not able to wet me. \ For I stand higher on a rock, out of reach from tidal wash\ because there’s an unseen force limiting; holding the\ \ Waves, pounding upon the shore.\ .\ .\ .</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:20:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Coffee @ Pirongia</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/coffee-pirongia/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/coffee-pirongia/</guid><description>Coffee @ Pirongia,\[1] NZ</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:52:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Vote 2020</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/your-vote-2020/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/your-vote-2020/</guid><description>Your Vote 2020</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2020 06:05:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>I hear a poem, do you hear 1 2?</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/i-hear-a-poem-do-you-hear-1-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/i-hear-a-poem-do-you-hear-1-2/</guid><description>I hear a poem, do you hear 1 2? Author: Stephen Douglas</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:49:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hope through Tragedy</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/hope-through-tradegy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/hope-through-tradegy/</guid><description>***I look up –*** to the Table Mountain Range, Cape of Good Hope. Does my strength come from these mountains?</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 05:22:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Driftwood</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/driftwood-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/driftwood-2/</guid><description>I used to be a tall strong pine tree  In Manawatu hills beyond thee  With branches wide and green;  Habitat for wild birds and bees,</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2020 06:50:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A-lone</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/a-lone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/a-lone/</guid><description>*I turn my gaze to address your moon-face and shout aloud my boon*</description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 09:30:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pilgrimage Poems - Steps of St Francis (2019)</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/pilgrimage-poems-steps-of-st-francis/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/pilgrimage-poems-steps-of-st-francis/</guid><description>I walk the steps of Saints Francis and Clare. . . .</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2020 07:14:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We all walk the road to Emmaus</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/we-all-walk-the-road-to-emmaus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/we-all-walk-the-road-to-emmaus/</guid><description>We all walk the road to Emmaus, A walk not too far from heart breaking affairs. Affairs which create doubts and questions about what is possible in life. Such happenings can engage deep conversations with friends, Turning despair to hope, a place not too far from here. We all walk our road to Emmaus,</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 00:04:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rich Fool</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/the-rich-fool/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/the-rich-fool/</guid><description>“Am I my brother’s keeper, shouted the stranger from the back, tell my brother to divide the family inheritance with me.”</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:09:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Morning Walk</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/a-morning-walk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/a-morning-walk/</guid><description>Autumn colours are plentiful this morning, as I walk ..The pathway winding through this beautiful scenery Thankful I have eyes to see and legs to move me. ..Gratefulness abounds in my spirit for autumn leaves Sing praise to their living Creator; these leaves sing ..Their song of happiness, beauty, and creativeness, I bend my ear to catch their song, to sing my praise too.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 02:40:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Isolation</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/isolation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/isolation/</guid><description>In isolation...in a room...the empty tomb</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>sunlight on my face</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/sunlight-on-my-face/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/sunlight-on-my-face/</guid><description>sunlight on my face</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Nov 2019 23:10:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Fact or Fiction</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/fact-or-fiction/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/fact-or-fiction/</guid><description>Ocean waves pound upon the shore</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 03:10:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hands</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/hands/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/hands/</guid><description>Be they praying or callous workers hands</description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 05:36:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lectio Divina</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/lectio-divina/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/lectio-divina/</guid><description>That fine dining score; 5 course with wine</description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Watery Invite</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/watery-invite/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/watery-invite/</guid><description>Inspirational, free flowing</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Promise of Fruit to Come</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/promise-of-fruit-to-come/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/promise-of-fruit-to-come/</guid><description>**It was an unusual sight to see**  **Because it was only part of the tree**</description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 06:33:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Leaves</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/leaves/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/leaves/</guid><description>One small leaf curls and tucks itself next to another,</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2017 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Advent Poems</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/2018-01-07-fragments-of-iceland/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/2018-01-07-fragments-of-iceland/</guid><description>As our body requires oxygen to move, to breathe, to know the taste of life</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Petone Wharf Scene</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/2019-03-24-nature/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/2019-03-24-nature/</guid><description>The way I spend time out in nature can affect how much my physical and mental health will recharge and how I benefit from it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2017 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>One Day at a Time</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/one-day-at-a-time/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/one-day-at-a-time/</guid><description>…….Where upon we lie upon our bed…………...to dream of what’s ahead</description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Thoughts by Hutt River</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/thoughts-by-hutt-river/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/thoughts-by-hutt-river/</guid><description>≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2016 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>So I Ponder</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/so-i-ponder/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/so-i-ponder/</guid><description>So, I Ponder. . . . .</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>If you be Light</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/if-you-be-light/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/if-you-be-light/</guid><description>If you be Light when all around is dark</description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The hills are brown</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/2018-01-15-photography/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/2018-01-15-photography/</guid><description>The hills are brown, (no green grass is found)</description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Lower Dam</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/driftwood/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/driftwood/</guid><description>Lower Dam – Wainui-o-mata</description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>delicate....delicate....delicate....</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/delicate-delicate-delicate/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/delicate-delicate-delicate/</guid><description>delicate. . .delicate. . .delicate.....</description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>All In A Day’s Work</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/2018-01-11-fox-village-in-japan/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/2018-01-11-fox-village-in-japan/</guid><description>I rake the fallen camellias, which lie upon the ground. They’ve flowered their youth;  Bloomed their best - in seasonal time.</description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Mood Swings</title><link>https://poet.kiwi/2016-08-22-working-from-home/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://poet.kiwi/2016-08-22-working-from-home/</guid><description>The weather changes like my mood as I contemplate life at noon. I wonder if the rain today has a message plain &amp; true.</description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>