Book of Change Poems
The poems below are part of the collected work by Dr Wayne Visser: Change the World: Poems for Positive Action.
Change the World: Poems for Positive Action
This unique collection brings together poems for positive action by poet and writer, Wayne Visser, providing inspiration and motivation for all those who are striving to change the world for the better. The anthology includes perennial favourites such as Be An Optimist, A Place to Thrive, Think on Business, To Lead, Giving Up, It’s Time, A Swirling Story, Because I Care, and, of course, Change the World (Parts 1 and 2), as well as more recent poems like A Butterfly Appeared, The Great Outdoors, and Letter to Earth. Buy the paper book / Buy the e-book.
Poems
The Book of Changes – This is the time of transition, the rhyme of revision …
Change the World – Part 1 – Let’s change the world, let’s shift it …
Nature Knows – When all the world seems upside down …
Alive – I live, and therefore, I am victorious …
Next – You never know what’s coming next …
Children at a Funeral – The shadow moved across the sun …
In the Game – Every day, you’re in the game, you’re dodging and dribbling …
A Dream to be Painting – It is time to pause, to breathe, to savour …
Spirit of the Mountain – We climb, not because the mountain is there …
Patient Dreams – I wish you all the best in life, through seasons and extremes …
Ideas – I was born in the dark, hardly more than a spark …
Tree Braille – I touch your living skin, and feel the pulse of seasons …
Nature’s Embrace – Take me to the forests green, I need to feel their healing balm …
Be An Optimist – … Not because the future is bright, but because bright people are …
Your Mission – In this short, sacred life, is to discover your voice …
Giving Up – I’m giving up – not on life, but on those actions that threaten life …
Earth Spirit – Whenever life gets me down, when I feel disconsolate …
The Elements – When leaves are red and clouds are grey …
Yes! – I’m saying ‘Yes!’ to life, with all its cravings and curve-balls …
Earth Affirmation – I am the rock, solid and silent …
The Valley of Doubt – Should you find yourself in the shadowed valley of doubt …
To Lead – To lead or not to lead? That is the wrong question, for in our hour of need …
Acting Now – I’m acting now – for the future, for all the children and their children …
It Matters – It matters that we live our life, and that we try and fail …
Complexity – We’re moving through the tangled maze …
Futures Bright – Days may be dark and nights be long …
Garden Wise – I’m learning how to plant new seeds …
Leap of Faith – You stood at the edge and took a deep breath …
Regeneration – The news is good (have you not heard?) …
In the Mind – When this great race of life is run …
A Better Place – We may not sail the Seven Seas …
Because I Care – When I strike on the streets in mass protest …
It’s Time – It’s time to redesign, to reconceive the world we leave …
A Swirling Story – Don’t ever underestimate the power of stories small and great …
Slow Time – We’re marching in slow time, in nowhere to go time …
Connected – In life we form a complex web of patterns always shifting …
Through Your Eyes – The world is different through your eyes …
Only Now – There’s only now – this moment of this day …
Think on Business – You may think on business and despair …
Thriving – Our life is so much more than a duty or a chore …
A Place to Thrive – Is the world a better place because we lived and loved and learned? …
If – If you can believe in yourself when others doubt you …
Never Too Late – It’s never too dark to light with a spark …
Healers of the Earth – Some may see a patch of dirt, but you see so much more …
The Stoic – I am a stoic, but that does not mean that I deny life’s pleasures …
Nature Speaks – Our days are filled with vexing noise …
Call to Adventure – This is a call to adventure: To set off together …
Enigma – Your life is a giant puzzle …
On the Brink – It’s true, our world is on the brink …
The Race of Our Lives – We are in the race of our lives, whether or not we know it …
Travel Far – As you travel far and venture wide, expect the tide to ebb and flow …
And We Grow – Life is full of twists and turns …
We Have Earth – Who needs heaven when we have skies …
A Butterfly Appeared – Yesterday, a butterfly appeared, fluttering at my windowpane …
The Great Outdoors – I always pause when “love of the great outdoors” is invoked …
Letter to Earth – Dear Earth, I have some things I’d like to say …
Let It Begin – I’m thinking it’s not too late, that our fate is not sealed …
Radical Activist – You call me a radical activist, condemning my actions …
I Like To Move It – Nothing comes to those who stand still …
Right Action, Right Mind – The older I get, the more I find that I am gentle with myself …
Change the World – Part 2 – Let’s change the world, let’s move it …
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