Green Face
Green Face Digger rumbles Chainsaw whines In the pines Above Deep Song As I hide & seek The Green faced one Whose apparition cannot be contrived & who I desperately need Following the temporary repairs To Battery Bridge & the…
Wisdom Sayings with Reflections (2021) 1
Wisdom Sayings, with reflections (2021) 1 ‘This is the era of the revolution against thought’ Take care, no one is exempt! If you ignore the indigenous roots of your soul, Ignore the motherlands of your sympathetic heart, Ignore the Star…
Sight
Sight I see in the darkness, Before mind leaps To logic & it’s true & real – Behind me, Fifteen months On the swaying train Which is the campaign to save Te Waikoropupū – Before me,…
Invocation
Invocation At break of dawn, we make our pledge For Te Waikoropupū walk the edge And as Te Ra ascends the sky We fix our eyes upon the prize Our sacred…
Christmas Eve, Vigil
Christmas Eve, Vigil To Christ aloud we sing tonight The eve of all that will come right To Christ alone, we sing To Christ the union and the bride The feminine in male disguise To Christ alone,…
Portents
Portents Beyond the mists of human time There lies a greater mind Where ancient voices speak as one In image, word & rhyme The standing place of all that’s true Our helm within the storm It rises fierce to speak…
Invitation
Invitation Join the slouching black-capped man Tap, tap, tapping rabbit keys In the untrapped world Beyond the cesspits Of misinformation Where tap-tapping keys Pounce like cats Check the facts That only silence sings In resurgent hearts On grey days Where…
Take another look
Take another look You rise early to watch the rumours climb Above the dark Takaka Hills – There’d been a meeting & the young balheads outvoted the old & we had another year! The party was at the Roots Bar!…
Taking on Destruction
Taking on destruction ‘You’re taking on the road of terrible destructions’ The empire turns against itself The wolves are gatheringAbout the borders of the soul I strum my mandolin The fascist mob, they seek to rob The freedoms that we…
Parting
Parting I watch from the Arnold River swing bridge Two Black Swans Cut A V Through The Dark Waters Of Kotuku Whakaoho This is not the yoga of rivers But The Yoga Of My River Specific Historic Geographic Personal It…
