Emancipation Planz Poems

Whilst winter remains ensconced
You break bleakness over coldness embers
Fires stoke to orange and coax blues warm
to remember, bearing revitalisation
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Heart, crosses and almond eyes stares
Tis time for breakfast and kindness cares
Buttercups, roses and counting down sleeps
for when special meets special, life turns sweet
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You know...

Slowly …
You tease
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Today …
as I continue to babysit freedom
once more
you become my
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Today,
We squashed guavas with pine nuts
You rode Cappuccino
then we nuzzled and groomed
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If the hardest thing I do today
Is to encourage another
Then I will not get lazier
As life is doing for sister or brother
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You cut
and I bore tributaries all over

You are 19 today
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Today …

With smile in good cheer, and in purpose so dear
with you on my head,
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An estaurine delight here you’ll find
The Whau River ebbs and flows with tide
Kingfisher and shag are only two
of our native taonga that await you.
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Tonight...
beneath my tree
softness falls, as mattress to lay
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