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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(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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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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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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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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many miracles
near misses
80% of city
has no water
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many hotels
damaged
shocked guests
evacuated?
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I too feel
and suffer

for Christchurch
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At Teacher’s College in Christchurch New Zealand years ago.
The tutor gave us teacher trainee students a moral lesson.
She said ‘If a student asks you a teacher this moral question.’
‘Is it wrong to steal? ’ You must answer the student thus.
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May God remember
Christchurch, New Zealand—
Who’ve suffered ruin
In their land.
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Returned
to Christchurch in 83

a toy town
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Terry.

Male. Short. Knowing. Aging.
Sibling of Sharon and Annette.
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It’s a small town.
It’s only a suburb.
But it’s a nice suburb.
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we have damage
might be worse?
with strong after
shocks my street?
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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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