Short New Zealand Poems

Incarcerated

Love for humanity? truth?

Breaking the net; soon !...

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Aotearoa
the land of the long white cloud...
dignity in bloom.

© Harry j Horsman 2012...

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New Zealand’s foaming red grasshopper
took a ride to Rome on a chopper.
Listened to Holly
With wife named Molly
Reminisced about the Big Bopper...

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*Image of New Zealand at Pixabay.

Actualities

truth
relates 
honesty
integrity
realization
be logical 
obvious
being
real

2022 August 18...

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The USA media is going to kill us all
Giving the shooters fame
We should be more like New Zealand
“A coward walked into a grade school”.
They never had another school shooting....

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Bless them all, I love them dearly 
With all of their imperfections 
They are a reflection of myself -
Ironic genetic selections



(Posted for Mothers Day 14th May in New Zealand)...

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Invercargill New Zealand 1905

still life now ageing
suspended on a brick wall
no names of value...
polished up the frame glitters
soon in meltdown for its gold.

 © Harry J Horsman 2019...

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A Kea is a parrot found in New Zealand
Also called Wobbly Keas, pranksters of birdland
Clowns of the mountains
Known to thousands
Of natives and tourists for fun loving diversions ...

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Skillary Spillary
Sir Edmund Hillary
Climber, Philanthropist
First up Mount Everest
Liked to keep bees

New Zealand juvenile
High-altitudinal
Knighted in fifty three
Maintained humility
Loved Nepalese...

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NZH quickly judge, BMW X SPORT, fav       




Pangram 27 Letters in the phrase
7 words 
All 26 Letters of the alphabet used
NZH- NZH New Zealand Herald (New Zealand newspaper)
fav- noun (slang)
noun: fav
a favorite person or thing...

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Facebook is called a social Network,

True,

It is not only dealing with faces,

Also in some other cases,

Match making,

Touching,

From Green Lands to New Zealand,

Austria to Australia,

A distance unable to fly,

Without human wings!...

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The moon hangs like a giant orb in the sky,
so the Morepork ends his plaintif cry.
As the new day begins,
cicadas begin their incessant din.
The rising sun turns the tree tops to a golden green,
It is dawn, truly a beautiful scene.

The Morepork is a New Zealand native owl....

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Humanity's cruise

The ship rapidly goes down

More music and dance!*





© Demetrios Trifiatis
        07 April 2017


* While natural phenomena become fiercer and more distractive by the year, 
 see Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Bolivia, humans seem to ignore nature's
 warnings!...

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ABEL  TASMAN    -  DIARY  1642


Long since we left the quay,  
My glass has scanned  the astral dome.
Bright though these stars may be, 
They are not the stars of home.





5  January   2020

…………………………………………………………………………….

NOTE  The Dutchman Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji....

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Rimmed with red,
the sky emerges
from an alcoholic haze,
collapses on the shoulder of a hill.

As thin-lipped
as the letter box,
I brush a broken bottle
from the driveway:

shards of glass
that tinkle on the tarmac,
sharp as laughter
in an empty room.


First published in Bravado, New Zealand
...

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What if the orbiting earth were to unexpectedly run into a brick wall,
speeding through the galaxy one night in the middle of Fall?
Can you imagine the sounds of death, destruction, and annihilation,
as Christchurch, New Zealand, crashes into the Atlanta Metro bus station?
I don’t think that would be any fun at all!
...

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she stares out of eyes that feel pure happiness
she has arrived in New Zealand with her honey
Today is theirs!
everything is possible.
the sun greets her by warming her face
where to start? what to do first?
the possibilities are magnificent.
she turns and smiles at the photographer.
feeing joy she cannot explain....

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I see the mountain far aloft,
Its grace and beauty shine and oft',
I wonder from which vantage best,
to seek the wonders of its crest.

Yet this mound I wish not to climb,
for from here is the most sublime,
a feeling, when it's needed most.
To conquer'd make this pang a ghost.

So I'd prefer to sit and dream.
Than lose forever, what I seek....

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Between the trees
a waterfall
                  of
                     light,
a stillness
bright with bubbling springs
and birdsong.
Here you stumbled
                                 on
                                    that
strange intensity
by which
the tongue-tied earth
is made articulate.


First published in Landfall, New Zealand...

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Rich people are busy like a bee
Real rich people show is kaleidoscopic
I have read their moments
They go to French farm 
For picking up the ripe grapes
Go to Milan for the fashion show
And eat sunflower seeds
Some will go to sweetveld for animal migration
Some will go to New Zealand for fishing
Some will go to beautiful places if they wanted to....

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Nature's roaring wrath:

Environment's call for help

Man on flooded ground!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
      28 March 2019 


5-7-5


* Australia, New Zealand, USA, Iran, Mozambique and many more countries around the globe have been devastated lately by extreme natural phenomena. When are we going to take seriously nature's warnings?...

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Killing each other

Whether Christian or Muslim 

A crime against God!







© Demetrios Trifiatis
     15 March 2019


BBC: Forty-nine people have been killed and at least 40 wounded in shootings
at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.

RIP our brothers!

* I am a Christian but my heart is bleeding the same for my Muslim brothers!...

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They are loud and noisy
They are for special occasions
Christmas and New Years Eve
And Guy Fawkes Night
They are bright and high up in the sky
They strike through the sky at an amazing pace
When fireworks go off with a bang
The crowd will cheer
Fire works are in every country
From Australia to America
From New Zealand to the Netherlands
They will go off with a bang...

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Shady Sail Ills Forgotten,
Crests and Peaks Roll with the Laugh-in’. 
Eyes and Heirs Make No Bones, 
No Want Nor Wish, To Know 'the Jones.’ 
Tis Where You Rise, 
Tis Where You’ll Lay, 
There's Nowhere Else, Like T1Bay.

About a cool suburb called Tiitahi (Tee Tah He) Bay in a city called Porirua, Wellington Aotearoa-New Zealand. 'Ti' (tee) is the Maori word for a Cabbage Tree. 'Tahi' means number one or single in Maori....

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Potential Euthanasia law in New Zealand
Encouraging Euthanasia
Profoundly Eye-opening

Might encourage 
All kinds of people
Who had never thought of it before
To accept suicide

Unclear if this law has been passed
A dangerous precedent.
Making suicide common

Making taking your own life
Acceptable
Desirable
Natural

Scary to me 
What this could do
to a society
Where teenagers are
already casually killing themselves...

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