Poems
Inspired poems
Below is the most recent poem inspired by a conversation with a guest on Seeds (or one which a guest has written).
Nature is always speaking
A reflection based on the episode with Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafunai about Pacific Ocean Voyaging for Episode 244.
You talk with assurance of unknowns
of ancient mariners long gone.
Adventurous spirits navigating
by stars, through storms and silent sun
The sound of rain on ocean
Like a speech that echoes across time
Then and now the same.
For nature is always speaking
using a different type of language
using wind, colour, depths, sunrise
Will we listen?
The Waka Hourua sits waiting
On the surface, ready to fly
The wind starts and lifts the sails
moving us forward towards
that as yet unseen island
waiting on the curved horizon.
Listen to Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafunai’s episode
Te Raranga (The Weaving)
Small paths through dense woods
Can unexpectedly turn into a way
The steps unclear till your on it
Yet Spirit ensures you don’t stray
It was quakes that taught us to lay
Solid bases that are not in the light
For true strength comes from the depths
Foundations that are not in plain sight
So a house is like a marriage
When building take your time
Like composing the lines of a poem
Thinking about meter and rhyme
So take all advice for what it is
Reflections from further down the road
Listen to what is helpful
But don’t treat any of it like a code
Now weave your vision together
No longer let your hearts roam
Let yourselves settle into each other
As your house turns into a home
