Walking Seed Own Time Lines Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

creative soul quite out of sorts
are you really source defined
by what you past have done?
remembered by what you have written?

does not forest, lakes, rivers,
windswept beaches, ocean tides,
ebb flow in kiwi artistic souls?

do you not hunger starve feel
beginnings are glory dawn chorus
with an eternal day sun bean streams
birth begging come write me?

past writes be they haka or poi songs
lilting lullaby soft night whispered blessings
stretching dark far back to jaw thigh bones
stretch dark far back to ancestor jaw thigh bones

ancestor blessings running sleeping
dream running in waking
eye infant sleep listening...
eye infant ancient sleep listening...

artistic walking time lines
artistic walking seed own time lines
hooks fishing catch spirit minds
wear colour cloak rainbow bird feathers...

to be an artist and deny art
is to deny self decades
may be devoted invested

into deep wound near fever social causes
delving into tunnels lighting candles
holding lamps high warming other hands

but art denied crucifies poetic souls
song of self is wine sung trodden in life caverns
art is not mainstream commercials remix copycat dance routines

gaga sales pitch rip offs
never climb stairways
to heaven sung unique songs

are tuned in distempered souls
mānuka honey is kiwi wild
wind clover flax fibre twist plait knot

ropes pull waka
rata season scarlet
letter tui bellbird chant

forest call
dawn chorus
awake spirits

melody songs
kauri earth rooted
sky stand poet

chant flies
spindle poet taxes
starvation soul

screaming write
visions boil in own blood cells
eyes boil flay flesh in vision quests

time spins fast
in seer sight
ebb tide beaches siren whales

water birth born to cry ocean songs
communicative across vast
surge arena Pacific ocean songs

mist child of Aotearoa
ride wide current ocean tides
to tip of embracing Cape Reinga

Pohutukawa
tree is rest eternal spirit
step home waiting...