Psalm 32
Psalm 32 Today I name my life I stand Tranquil and confident on a friend’s balcony in Charteris Bay Face the incoming tide My life holds me I join palm to palm to heart Lift to brow Celebrate the great…
Psalm 31
Psalm 31 Mōkihi I set you free on the awa Te Ipurangi Know not who dips your paddle Only You must be free If a voice cries from the land of Ōtautahi Who sends thee Oh Mōkihi Say A poor…
Psalm 30
Psalm 30 Who can say why the black horse rears – His hoofs pawing vacant air & is gone? I spend my days building altars to the Uncontainable My nights with the Smasher of Chains What seizes my life is…
Psalm 29
Psalm 29 Night falls & I am lit by the hallowed memory Of the voice (now fierce, now tender) Which, brings me to this place – To this I cling, as I take the upward turn Beyond the 2nd lookout…
Psalm 28
Psalm 28 The true comes when you bring the light Of your personality To bear On the choice Before You – Your Personal Light Ever Inventive Ever Astonishing Ever Unique Child of night’s tempestuous passage Now Heart’s Joyful Companion Shining…
Psalm 27
Psalm 27 Is this a dream or do I wake Where sun & moon entwine With golden bees in kāmahi In white & pink sublime As joy & light in sheer delight Shine on kōpara’s shrine & tui’s beak sips…
Psalm 26
Psalm 26 Can I bear this shaping Cross Carved in the Maker’s hand The path so all-original Its source – primeval land & can I mount the hill of love While to myself hold true Unfold in Nature’s principles Yet,…
Psalm 25
Psalm 25 Cast by cast I dismiss their well-intentioned words In my own waders fish the Arnold’s Blackening mouth – Sip the bitter wine of her death Across the river – Te Ruru’s enduring call Out of darkness – Te…
Psalm 24
Psalm 24 Climbing rain wreathed Te Kinga Tīwaiwaka flits & pips about my feet See – See – your Te Kinga lives – See – See – the beauty of her eyes Heart aflame I retie mucky boots My cheeks,…
Psalm 23
Psalm 23 Mind convinced Love pulls the outside in – On my 60th birthday I ascend Te Kinga Burning Kevin Moran 16/5/11 Whakapapa: This poem includes words adapted from ‘the voice’ (heard on the cusp between sleep &…