Best Kea Poems

sharp wind and snowfall 
etched name on ancient mountain 
light archs-cut angles 


mists circle summit
chilled lava rock formations 
Pele vacations

night falls mistily
artistic rain brushed dreamscape
Mauna...

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Slowly spring sun caresses the land
As kowhais will softly provoke 
Flushes of yellow to gently expand
Their buds of the season uncloak
Helping bellbirds escape from winter’s...

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One suspects a matagouri temperament
Upon first glimpsing that weathered face.
Wrinkles extending like braided rivers
Life of tussles and toils, to demonstrate.

No stranger to heat or an...

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*Image of Pala au & Nanahoa by Historic Hawaii
AUDIO: Couplet read
VIDEO: Unique Okala Island Off Monumental Cliffs of Moloka'i


Cliff

Cliff's supply the bemused aback.
Amassed jaws sink...

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The ABC’s of Morning

Awake  on the dot of seven
Birds     are chirping away 
Coffee… as always, first order of  the...

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Majestically they've stood since time had its start
rising on a cartographer's global elevational chart
Mountain ranges, wondrous works of God's creation
that eyes have beheld for centuries...

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Ke lekopokopo kea koposela
Se khalisi ka nna
Ke oa hao feela
Ke metsi a pula kea lelemela
Senoa-mapholi ke nna
U le naha-thote
Ke mabele kea qalana
Nthonake rebe ngoe
Mehopolo eaka...

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A nation with the southernmost capital in the globe
whose identity has constantly been bullied
by the global acknowledgement of a larger one.
A place where economic empowerment...

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Dawn's diamond dew drops delight
As cooler autumn air descends
Upon the tropical trees in dappled sun
Where wild piglets run, free to forage

Down below the snows of...

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A Kea is a parrot found in New Zealand
Also called Wobbly Keas, pranksters of birdland
Clowns of the mountains
Known to thousands
Of natives and tourists for fun...

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Work in Progress
Mauna Loa Volcano & Kilauea Sister Volcano

The political and spiritual symbolism of Mauna Loa’s historic eruption
“We’re seeing new land, new geographical features being...

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**A lesson offered by the poet in me I've seen,

The lee sides (leeward) of mountains are where the winds parts upwards,
And the warmth of the...

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I'm Etcetera,
the sentinel
at the gate
of the realm
of Fancy.
This is the kea
of the gate,
I open
the gate
and you
enter this realm
and get
yourself lost
in fancy-

I'm Etcetera!...

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*Neighboring Mauna Kea has been sleeping for centuries, but notice the red flows popping and flowing in the gray areas below Mauna Loa's actual summit....

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Ke kgathaditswe Ke lerato. 
Ke mehwabadi ya lerato, 
Ke lla dikeledi tsa madi a mafubedu. 
Pelo yaka e marantharantha.
Kannete lerato le nsotlile.

Ke apere mabitso, Ke...

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