06-17-2018, 08:08 AM
This is the poem as accepted - yet to go through editor's edit suggestions.
About time
Tupu-tupu-nui-a-uta asked for rain;
torrents fell, floods rose
engulfing hills, mountains.
You turned from Tane?
Build rafts, or drown.
* * *
From Elephantine came granite
for the temple at Sais. One block
took two thousand labourers
three years to move, even hollowed
to make a chamber.
Dropped at the gate, never
moved into place.
* * *
clouds drift across Taranaki
while I
chop wood
fetch water
About time
Tupu-tupu-nui-a-uta asked for rain;
torrents fell, floods rose
engulfing hills, mountains.
You turned from Tane?
Build rafts, or drown.
* * *
From Elephantine came granite
for the temple at Sais. One block
took two thousand labourers
three years to move, even hollowed
to make a chamber.
Dropped at the gate, never
moved into place.
* * *
clouds drift across Taranaki
while I
chop wood
fetch water