Keith D Trestrail Poet Lyric

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Skyrider

For far shires beyond the western red sun
  I’m leaving the Land of the Long White Cloud -
to journey across the red and blue horizon
  where cockatoos in bloodwoods sing aloud.

Tainui, that great waka in the sky -
  the flight of the Koru carrying me
into the far orbits seven miles high
  at altitude above the Tasman Sea.

Trading in my black singlet and swanndri
  for a swag and a croc tooth akubra,
so hoo-roo Long Bay and gidday Bondi
  where blokes drink Bundy Rum, not Coruba!
Thus here I am a skyrider who flew
on the wings of Tainui back to you.

And on its metallic longrider wing
  I gazed the moon and stars, the setting sun.
No man has seen a more glorious thing
  and for me no greater journey begun!

Leaving a world where reality bites
  for the Dreamtime People’s great southern land -
among outback bushies and cork hat urbanites
  in the convict Land of the Long White Sand.

Trading in my black singlet and swanndri
  for a swag and a croc tooth akubra,
so hoo-roo Long Bay and gidday Bondi
  where blokes drink Bundy Rum, not Coruba!
Thus here I am a skyrider who flew
on the wings of Tainui back to you.

There I was lost to love's outcast curse,
  to my fits of rage and ravage of woe -
to God in Heaven and demons on Earth
  till the last flight from desolation row.

Now the Sunshine Coast is the life for me
in palisades and canals by the sea.


              Written: July 1997

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