Steve Page

Steve Page Sep 2024

Do not rise gently into the dawning light.
Young bones should relish the pause before break of day.
Let your teenage bones embrace what remains of the night.
Rage, rage against the alarm of light.

(A bit of fun.) After Dylan Thomas'
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.

#teen #dawn #light #night

Steve Page Sep 2024

Mr Church

Find what you love
Live it, hold it like a long note
Behold it like still-wet art
and it becomes beauty to you.
It becomes magical.
Like family.

Watching a movie called Mr Church (an unusually quiet role for Eddie Murphy). I sobbed.

#love #family #music

Steve Page Sep 2024

Transition

Decision to leave
Permission to enter
Right to remain
Hope for peace

I see the courage that folk need, the risks they need to take for the sake of their family.

#refugee #safety

Steve Page Sep 2024

Received Art

I practice the art of receiving art
Not grasping it , not seeking to utilise it
Rather relax-sitting, receiving it
Recognising God's gifting of it
But happy to let it rest
where I can better meet it,
just beyond my practiced insight.

Some of the best art lies just beyond my grasp, where it belongs.

#art

Steve Page Sep 2024

Tongues

Learn from our Mother Tongues
Dance to our Sister Tongues
Laugh with our Daughter Tongues
and look to our yet-to-comes

We owe so much to those who came before, but we also depend on our own generation and have the pleasure of being present for the next.

#family #generations

Steve Page Aug 2024

Held

After a while they tell us.
We're being held at a signal.
But being held doesn’t feel like this.
When I'm held
I feel warmth.
I feel connection.

Here I feel placed on hold.
I feel a coldness, distance.

I'll wait for a fresh signal.

Being held is a physical essential.

#hold #hug #connect

Steve Page Aug 2024

Loaner

Love is a loaner armchair
Low enough to relax me
Built to embrace me
With arms that support me
While I return to my book
And sup hot tea

My Parker Knowles armchair is being reupholstered. But I have a loaner.

#chair