Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Michael Oakley-Browne

Epiphytic Rangitoto

By the black dirty road
That convicts moulded,
Broad, green, epiphytic,
Kawa-puka leaves
Sprouted and took
Hold on folded
Old cold lava
And sintered boulders

The island’s coarse black rock,
Had flowed blistering down
To its hissing, heavenly habitat,
To form a mould on a lens
Of an artesian water clock
Where a busy echo-system
Ticked down time,
Layer on layer of epiphytic grime

In the absence of trees and
The presence of life, laden air
The black, bleak, blazed rock
Bled and buckled no more
And unique flora cross bred there
Forming hybrid trees of
Rata-pohutukawa on
Rangitoto’s gnarled floors.

Friday, March 24, 2006

Blogsite

After months of inactivity, AucklandPoetry is reborn as a user contributed site.

You can easily submit your poetry and events on this site - all you have to do is obtain a login. To do that, email me and I will set you up.

Then you can post whenever you feel the need. The catch? Comments can be left by anyone about your poems or events.

Have fun.