Long Polynesian Poems

Tell her you saw me ...

Tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape
during a gale, much too close to the rocks.
Tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges,
its roar far too loud...

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tell her you saw me ...

tell her I was out on the bluff at the Cape during a gale, much too close to the rocks … tell her the surf was tormenting the ledges, its...

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Being Your Eyes for Swell 2007
Swell: Currumbin Sculpture Festival
 
For Fred
Picture us arm in arm, strolling,
the crunch of sand underfoot,
the scent of sea air, the touch of sea wind
on our skin, again on the beach...

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I never saw them in the day, I couldn't - no one could ... they were "of the
    dark" ... oh, they moved about when the sun was up, no question. I...

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Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors transmigrate my mind
O to graze with the deer, dear
the tree never falls silently
lizards scatter,...

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The young lad sat in the old school room
To him the place felt like a tomb
He knew that he would be leaving soon
He felt restless

He got a job on the factory floor
This just seemed to...

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SACRED

At a farewell dinner I told my new friends
on the El Camino Real that I had been married before
They said the church works hard to discourage divorce
but many live separate and call it OK
Angry and...

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He walks the moonlit moor,
With eyes all aglow,
Hunting down his next victim,
Bringing death unto us all.

His ears are perked up,
Listening to the sounds,
That fill the night sky,
From the bats to faint footsteps,
And horses neighing in...

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I spied a ship and descried the flag it flew.
It was nothing like the flags I had seen before.
It was red and blue, with white circles and yellow stars
The highlights of white and yellow stood...

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The Polynesian pearl of the Northern Pacific, 
A glittering paradise gleaming in brilliance,
Set float amongst the oceans clear waters.
A beautiful jewel reflecting in the different
 Shades of  aquatic blues.
The winds of peace blew in...

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The plague knew my infinite hulk 
in 1769, crept through the Polynesian crystal
onto my outstretched archipelago
black sands and white sands and volcanoes
speaking the purple language,
the queen’s English to the farmer’s French,
and drank from the palm...

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Do you remember Helen Keller?
She was a really awesome speller
Who couldn't hear nor see nor speak,
So to communicate
She would ges-tic-u-late.

Marcel Marceau spoke perfect French,
But he was helpless in a pinch
Because a mime does not converse,
Or...

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Like cold marble statues
stiff as vague mixtures
of alcohol that stings of spirits,
cheap as famished souls.
Once were unique and proud,
now the vanishing isles!

A struggle to keep adrift 
to face the blue sky vast
and unyielding, matching 
that...

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thumb tacked , tackled some say by the thumb,
  a
 bullied pencil pusher sitting upright at mid afternoon.  
so thin his ergonomic spinal robot as he leans back 
in his plastic office chair.

peering...

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Many years before I had a girlfriend
We shared our views as done by each good friend, 
Together most of the play time we spend.
For some work, once grandpa came to attend.

Introduced her to grandpa. He...

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" Pirate's Kids "

Pirates bein' such the noisy bunch~
'Twouldn't surprise me 'twere true my hunch~
Bein' o'course all Pirates once were kids~
So oft then were findin' better use fer fids~

Linin' ship's decks in such orderly a...

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Many have heard of a lost continent in the Atlantic
But there are some who believe there was one in the Pacific

Grab hold of time’s clock and switch it back 85 thousand years
Peer through history’s mist,...

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Morning brief
Not much to say;
Touching aftermath

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Passing clouds
Candy floss chit-chat;
Without a word

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Lovers in the park
Saturday evening trysts;
Cheery revival

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Free-and-Easy
Way to go;
Redundant tour guide

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Aloha Hawaii
Polynesian fare;
Smiles surfing free

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Fly away now
Missionary quest;
Overseas homework

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Complains surge
No much change;
Wishful thinking

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Here and there
Notice...

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Hunger led you through
the Bering Straits 
to discover new possibilities
in the foreign, distant land.

You were hunters, brave and great,
chasing animals for your survival,
walking thousands of miles –
hunting to sustain existence.

Your other brothers,
set sail in their...

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Laying here in the cut with eyes closed,
listening to the soft, tinkling sound
of the Oriental wind chimes
My mind is calmed by peaceful meditations
In my heart, I feel universal love ...
rhythmic beat of African drums
Dark continent...

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Ricky, you may have been around the world.
You have seen many different flags unfurled.
Is it true you found a girl wherever you went?
I would say your time was very well spent.

You knew a pretty senorita...

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Frisian
nsos voulons
a un dollar dans? amazon dans
le'space vacantio
pres' de la
bibliotheque
solomons Island.
 Sincerly Your
Frisian
"the Happy"Polynesian


How can I
when it
seems the worlds
on my shoulders
and it stranger
as I get older
seems like no know
ever wanted me.
How can I when
II'm all...

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Water World

I reach and turn a chrome spigot;
Then magic on magic transported am I
To a Polynesian waterfall

I am bathing, brushing long black hair, 
singing Polynesian songs
At dawn……

Splash!

There is a child’s chortle, a joyous laugh
A yellow...

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Polynesian Island
In the Pacific south east
Starved of trees
For a transporting feast
 
Stone idols
Moai, they are called
Some unfinished
Standing tall
 
This island of the extinct
Three volcanoes in all
Terevaka, Poike and Rano Kau
 
As years passed
Statues were toppled
Civil...

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