Christchurch Poems

The King was drinking in Malwood Hall,
There came in a monk before them all:
He thrust by squire, he thrust by knight,
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''Twill take some getting.' 'Sir, I think 'twill so.'
The old man stared up at the mistletoe
That hung too high in the poplar's crest for plunder
Of any climber, though not for kissing under:
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HERE, where the surges of a world of sea
Break on our bastioned walls with league-long sweep,
Four fair young queens their lonely splendour keep,
Each in a city throned. The first is she
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(Karl Popper (1902-1994) .

Indeed it was you, Karl, who left Vienna
not a moment too soon, as it turned out,
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Some scientists had located a missing geological piece. Therefore,
They found a puzzle of plate tectonics in the Southwest Pacific Ocean.
East and West Antarctica had spread twenty-six million years before.
The rift between them opened one hundred miles due to this motion.
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earth mobile surface divided into tectonic plates
Alpine fault cross hair connects two subduction margins
New Zealand continent sits on plate boundaries
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An earthquake struck New Zealand's city of Christchurch on Tuesday
Burying vehicles under debris and collapsing buildings into the streets.
Police announced a curfew and the city was shut down on Wednesday,
Rescuers scrambled to reach beneath the rubble the residents.
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many miracles
near misses
80% of city
has no water
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Christ church Cathedral Strawberry Festival
the Cathedral is red
on the cake
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no sleep
as many

so many
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Jim, cela ne vous fera rien, n'est-ce pas,
si je ne viens pas a votre fete?
une mort c'est assez, je ne vous tuerai
encore une fois, en rituel,
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The last day you see
the sun is not an illusion,
It's your last day.
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I never may walk in the old fields again
And hear the birds sing in the wind and the rain
When in late April in field by Finnow where the rank rushes grow
The wild born cock pheasant does cuck and crow
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You may travel to Tokyo or Kathmandu
But wherever you go to your past follows you
You may live in Paris or London or New York or Rome
Your past it will follow you to your new home
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Far too big a World in a lifetime to see
With the saying of a small World after all many would not agree
Though many places i have lived in and i have seen quite a few
I like many do yearn to see places to me new
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Though his wife and children are Aussies Joe is quite proud
To tell you he is from the Land Of The Long White Cloud
When New Zealand in rugby or soccer or cricket does play
A win for the Kiwis helps to make his day
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Come in me boy and I'll make you tea and I'll put on the electric kettle
That's how they make you feel at home back home in Ballinspittle
And take a chair and rest your feet this life's too short for hurry
The happy man lives on for years because he never worry.
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We all have a town or a city or a place to call home
To some it is Paris or London or Rome
Or Moscow or Sydney, Dublin, Montreal or L A
To them remain home though from there they live far away
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The children of Duhallow where might they be today
You will find some in Britain, Canada and the U.S.A.
And in distant Australia Homeland of the Kangaroo
And in cities of New Zealand Christchurch, Auckland, Rotorua.
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You may live in London, New York, Paris or Rome
But always for you there's a place they call home
The place where you first looked on the light of day
Though from where you now live this might be far away
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what can you expect
when your country elects
an egg for a leader?
The biggest agenda item
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an unprecedented unexpected earthquake
struck Christchurch New Zealand in
a region of no previous fault line activity
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both my teenage daughters
are still lost under the covers

hibernating deep in slumber sleep
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the long night of an aged lonely life
must end eventually who can endure endless
night sorrow night after night alone
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who would have thought
in Westport New Zealand
a poet would be born
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who would have thought
in Westport New Zealand
a poet would be born
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How do we know? John Key promotes
TPP sly Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
with hard sell dictatorship show on the road?
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the statement is solid valid
English immigrant settlers
back in early colonial days
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Started out a good day,
Prayer, quietness, serenity,
Within a moment the silence had gone,
You surely knew something Terrible was wrong.
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New Zealand's great woman Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
From her other World political leaders have so much to learn
At the massacre at the Christchurch Mosques where fity people died
Her compassion and empathy for the families of the victims a sense of comfort and to the people of New Zealand a sense of pride
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