{"id":19606,"date":"2013-03-26T06:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T17:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19606"},"modified":"2013-03-24T17:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T04:49:28","slug":"tuesday-poem-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/tuesday-poem-ti\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: “Ti”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ti <\/strong>
\nAkaroa Heads<\/p>\n

Cordyline on a windswept point\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0stark
\neach frond stabbing
\nsharp as a taiaha\u2019s\u00a0 blade
\ndefying the elements
\nfacing down the ocean \u2013 that vast expanse
\nconquered first by Kiwa
\nthe far voyaging \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 salt encrusted
\nsculpted by endless distance
\nalways looking\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0ever longing for land
\nlying over the next line of horizon \u2013
\nthe darker smudge of blue
\nlifting to green above the deep swell
\nthe first sighting\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0eyes shaded
\nof that solitary tree piercing sky
\nabove a coastal headland\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0marking
\nthe moment of transition
\nthe place between.<\/p>\n

(c) Helen Lowe<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

First Published in Blackmail Press<\/em><\/a>, \u201cCrossed Cultures\u201d Special Edition, 18 April 2008
\nRe-published, Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury Prose & Poetry<\/em>, Ed. Karen Zelas, Wily Publications, 2009<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Notes:<\/p>\n

i) Ti Kouka<\/em>\u2014the Maori name for the NZ \u2018cabbage tree\u2019; scientific name Cordyline Australis<\/em>
\nii) Taiaha<\/em>\u2014a Maori stabbing spear, used now in ceremonies of greeting and challenge
\niii) The Maori name for the Pacific ocean is Te Moananui a Kiwa<\/em>, \u2018the great ocean of Kiwa\u2019, a mythic voyager<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I will be featuring poems that respond to works of art over the next while—not necessarily exclusively every week but as they come to hand, and thought I would start with one of my own: Ti<\/em>, which was written in response to a print by Diana Adams<\/a>, a New Zealand landscape painter. The print was given to me as a gift in 2004.<\/p>\n

.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>To read the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong>\u2014and link to other Tuesday Poets posting around NZ and the world\u2014either click here<\/strong><\/a>or on the Quill icon in the sidebar.<\/p>\n

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Ti Akaroa Heads Cordyline on a windswept point\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0stark each frond stabbing sharp as a taiaha\u2019s\u00a0 blade defying the elements facing down the ocean \u2013 that vast expanse conquered first by Kiwa the far voyaging \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 salt encrusted sculpted by endless distance always looking\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0ever longing for land lying over the next line of horizon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19613,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19606\/revisions\/19613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}