The Great Fish Maui Snared
...With canoe and hook of a jawbone
below a great fish Maui snared,
and his brothers half-crazed behaving
leapt and gouged in frenzy craving.
From Palliser Bay to Cape Reinga
(departing p...
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Categories:
kauri, home,
Form: Rhyme
The Kauri Tree
...Of course you’re fourteen years older
since the last time I saw you.
Your magnificent girth - dizzy height.
From your smallest roots (the size of a man’s thigh)
to your first branches tha...
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Categories:
kauri, growing up, perspective, tree,
Form: Free verse
Road Rage Revisit Manurewa New Zealand
...Memories of him are still there upon Weymouth Road
his sullen white cross nailed to the old Kauri
symbolize by countless layers of uncaring street wise graffiti,
while burdensome scars revealed by he...
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Categories:
kauri, angst, dedication, old, old,
Form: Free verse
Love's Sexual Divorce
...With every man I kiss or fu...I'm writing you love's divorce papers
CONSIDER YOURSELF SERVED!
Your love inside of me
Has become like a festering boil
Or an inflamed, infected wound
The injury ...
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Categories:
kauri, allegory, loss, lost love,
Form: I do not know?