{"id":33750,"date":"2016-12-06T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33750"},"modified":"2016-12-04T18:31:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T05:31:57","slug":"tuesday-poetry-ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/tuesday-poetry-ti\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poetry: “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<\/span>
\n Re-published, Crest to Crest: Impressions of Canterbury Prose & Poetry<\/em>, Ed. Karen Zelas, Wily Publications, 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

\"ti_print\"<\/a>Notes:<\/strong><\/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

Ti<\/em> is also ekphrastic poem that I wrote in response to the following print by Diana Adams, that I was given some years ago.\u00a0 To find out more about the artist, click on:<\/p>\n

Diana Adams<\/a><\/h4>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

Recently I’ve been featuring poems that are broadly themed around “the sea”, which I’ve realised encompasses quite a few of my own works. So over the next few weeks, as we head into the Christmas-New Year holiday season, I’ll be reprising the poems, directly or indirectly focused on or around “the sea”, that I’ve featured on the blog over the past (almost) six years. I hope you, as readers, may enjoy them again a second time around.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior \u2018Sea\u2019 Poems include:<\/h4>\n

\u201cThe Sea\u201d by Tim Jones<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cDover Beach\u201d (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBreathing You In\u201d by David Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are more than half water\u201d by Helen Rickerby<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Seafarer\u201d Excerpt from the Anglo Saxon poem (Anonymous)<\/a><\/p>\n

Two Short Poems by Bernadette Hall<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman who swims with jellyfish\u201d by Janice Freegard<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cthe rough sea\u201d \u2014 a haiku by Matsuo Bash\u014d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cbeachcombing\u201d \u2014 a haiku by Helen Lowe<\/a><\/p>\n

“Driftwood” by Helen Lowe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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