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.
