Keith D Trestrail Poet Sonnet

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Beyond Cook Strait

From toothed alps to McKenzie High Country
  to hardwood alpine forest and fernland,
there rises the jewel Aoraki 
  out of the jagged ice age peaks so grand.
And polar winds at its rock face below
  chill Lake Te Anau’s willow and bluegum,
where the frozen wild lowland tussocks grow
  and rainbow river trout and salmon run.
Behold plains and valleys when spring has shone,
  hear the cloven hooves scatter asunder,
climb Arthur’s Pass to Milford Track and yon
  to glacier and fiord and rolling tundra.
Stretched from Cloudy Bay to Bluff on the sea
thunders the sky father, Ranginui.
  

              Written: April 1996

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