NEW ZEALAND

doug@visual.co.nz 

Lava Lava
(Lava lava is a traditional dress 
of the Samoan People, very much a "Sarong")

Your shroud
enwraps my
waist
thigh
legs
Colours me
hibiscus pink
yellow red
gives me something
I believe in
That I am
Samoan enough
to wear your
Lava Lava

Dedicated to My Grandmother
Nonsina Ulberg. 

Silence of days

Have not written
in the silences of days
for I was written
why not have been afraid

Was I speaking in tongues
Riddling, speaking in washes
Was I afraid of what 
I had said

for her muse it did
beckon me
from within seamless tides
subdued me
And I listened

to poems new
of a fledgling voice
Courageous Heart
Kindred spirit
words verse aborn

Have not written in 
days of silence
for I was waiting
Why not have been afraid

© All Copyright, 8/8/2000, Doug Poole
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