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[labellementeuse]

Haka

I want to know!
Don't I belong here?

I was born at Papa-kura.
My whenua turned the soil red.

My mother cried like a seagull.

Her ancestors are buried in Papa-toetoe.
Their old heads are white plumes.

My father held me to this
upside-down sky and I sneezed.

Am I not maori?


I want to know!
Do you belong here?

Where is Kupe from?
His canoe was a strange tree.

Could he feel what my people felt?

This place to rest from the sea.
This longing for home.

Where do the dead return to?
Hawaiki nui. Hawaiki roa. Hawaiki pamaomao.

Are you not pakeha?

-- Glenn Colquhoun

Comments

[sennical.livejournal.com]

Hey, your birthday's tomorrow, right? I didn't totally make that up, I hope.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it is, actually. :D How in the world did you know/remember that?

[sennical.livejournal.com]

I have an odd birthday memory. I knew July; wasn't so sure about the day.

Have a good one!

[deinacrida.livejournal.com]

Hey, I get it now. It's (inter?)national poetry day!
I didn't dislike either of those poems and I can't say I haven't heard of Glenn Colquhoun.
Merry Birthmas for tomorrow!
"Just 19 and suckers dream I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 a dream obscene with 6 months off for bad behaviour"

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Heh, nope, I'm doing it for international blog against racism week. But, also, yes!

Thank you! XD

[claystarling.livejournal.com]

So, thanks to timezones, I don't know whether your birthday is "now" or in some hours.

So I'll be safe and say happy birthday!
Now.

[claystarling.livejournal.com]

Now, too.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thanks!

All the cool kids are doing it.

[disturbed-kiwi.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday. Hope all your consumeristic dreams come true.

Re: All the cool kids are doing it.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Aw, so sweet. ;) Thanks!