10-10-2017, 02:04 AM
Rules: Write a poem for national poetry month on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a separate reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month have written 30 poems for National Poetry Month.
Topic 10: Write a poem inspired by unrequited love, somehow connected to NZ.
Maori legends are full of them - try Pania, https://youtu.be/5H8PY7j2ocI or
Hinemoa https://youtu.be/mKlG5leo1rA
https://eithnenightingale.com/2015/01/02/mourning-mists-of-maori-gods-in-milford-sound/
https://www.teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/2t48/tregear-edward-robert
Form : any
Line requirements: 8 lines or more
I’m driving north along the Desert Road
as misty tears from Taranaki’s head
lead me towards his loss, his wife, his home,
his Ruapehu. There beside her bed
her lover smoulders. Tongariro won
the battle to possess her. Still, she mourns
her gentle husband, the defeated one.
She cries for him as every new day dawns
and Tongariro angers. He well knows
he never will possess her love again.
The space that Taranaki left still grows
between them like a swamp, morass of pain.
The twisting road now hides, now shows, the three;
eternal dance, of love, and loss, and me.
https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/ruapehu-mount/page-3
Feeling very wooden here - but will just keep plodding on.