Deborah
Deborah Hear me, Deborah, my love You, who drag events, stone tables and shatter pillars Who are the incarnation of Justice for those who defend Sam’s Creek, and the prophetess of the activation And I saw your daughter high in…
Occupation
Occupation We stand within the awa That flows so crystal clear As we chant our declarations Words ride by on the air While stones they roll towards us With hands upon their chins & knotted brows and ageless eyes And…
It’s like the continent of Australia is hidden beneath our cognitive skills
It’s like the continent of Australia is hidden beneath our cognitive skills You drop beneath your rational map Where mental skills go clack, clack, clack Where cognitive is all straight-lining & cerebral is fact-defining Beneath the floor where robots rave…
Sam’s Creek
Sam’s Creek Sam’s Creek, Sam’s Creek, you’re the wisdom that we seek As snow does fall on mountains tall, we gather at your feet Sam’s Creek, Sams Creek, you’re the mother of us all You kneel and smile and play…
Coaster
Coaster I was born as a Coaster with bush in my blood With river and mountain and earthquake and flood And I’ll die as a Coaster, though I’m drifting far north Where Pupu’s dark beauty calls me to the Source…
Song of my Self
Song of my Self I love you as the browsing deer I love you when you’re far and near I love you in the pouring rain I love you as the fire’s flame I love in the possums’ growl I…
Evidence
Evidence Descending the thin track Of inherited memory I arrive at the bubbling springs Of first humanness – & it seems a forlorn & forgotten place With few reminders of humanities Singular promise But looking deeper, past the rot and…
Contribution
Contribution The escape from the penitentiary The swig of imagination The riot of gladness The circus of anointing The singular attraction The peace of belonging The fount of good cheer The return of innocence The dominion of inspiration The pageant…
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…
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,…