Annihilation
Annihilation Even now your death forms around you Vladimir Vlandimirovich Though it will not come Among the peace of loved ones But in an inevitable eruption Of violence & in your rage and despair You will find no comfort…
14
14 Day three of invasion & I just can’t agree To utter the name Of the obscenity Fourteen children lie broken Bloody and dead & more will soon follow I know in my head But I simply can’t live…
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!…
