'Ode To Canterbury'

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This Poem of Hope by Pealdiver was written for all those who have suffered from the Lyttleton and Christchurch NZ Earthquake on 22 – 02 – 2011 and there after. The whole world shares this tragedy with everyone throughout this Southern Land, all locals and visitors alike; all whom have had their lives interrupted in someway by mother nature. And for the families of every person who came from another land to become part of this country's history; know that we as New Zealanders, will always honour and hold them in our hearts as if they are our own. Be strong and go on together. Take Care.
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'Ode To Canterbury'
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Within this forest

Of our mankind

Let us always notice

Know and learn to respect

The important of each

Life giving tree

In it’s own unique

And integral oneness

Shared not in vain

Those shadows cast

Collectively and by each

Heartbeat bruised

Or broken by life lost

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May we always

Love and hope

That our forest shares

Our boundless love fully

Before time, or sharp axes

Strike down the greatness

Of this collective presence

Of all lives here known

And those we will always

Love and remember

On nor-west breezes blown

In Canterbury

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Before sadly leaving

Here, with earth shaken

Yet never to lose

Relevance or hope

To fading recollection

Of those who passed here

Or were roughly felled

Prematurely, by the depth

Of every void felt

By all of us within our forest

We who are left

We who are, still standing

Here in time and yet to pass

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Left here, beyond you

In pain and sadness

Unable to ever match

That greatness gone

Your beauty scarred

Your uniqueness lost

By those degrees of time

Hope and shadow-less grief

That will naturally dictate

We are one, as each

And one, as mankind’s forest

Destined to never know

Or to gladly measure

Our time in this forest

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* Pearldiver *

© 2011 Copyright Pearldiver Poetry with all rights reserved.

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