Silent Solitary Ominous Kiwi Flight Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Silent Solitary Ominous Kiwi Flight



New Zealand remains
inherent a cannibal culture eats
irreverent literary genius

honoured are our sports
heroes believed All Blacks
legendary spirit decades

depicting nationalistic passions
viewed hallowed internationals
sanctified are epic test matches

against Springboks Wallabies
great epic rival Rugby Nations
holy grail reverent conversions

chasing elusive pig skin tries
team skills scrum honed religious
national international matches

makes kiwi blood boil victorious
game not country's hallowed pages
fail forgotten forlorn literary arts

regarded with great respect kiwi arts
reverence bestowed on foreign shores
Katherine Mansfield pen name cloaks

write prominent modernist short fictions
flavour focus vivacious charismatic lives
Virginia Woolf D.H. Lawrence befriends

restlessly seeking plumaged kiwi birds
go far flying flying foreign banner skies
chalice blood gathered wit weeping cries


Copyright © Terence George Craddock
Dedicated to Katherine Mansfield, with wreaths woven with a final stanza image, transcribed from her poem ‘Across The Red Sky'.

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