Heartscapes explores ‘the greater love’ we see in people and the world around us. The ‘heart’ poems are the prayers of a contemplative set in the context of a long life that has known tragedy and suffering as well as love and many friendships. Heartscapes also includes salty wisdom about real life, love poems, stories, eco-poems, poems inspired by animals, translations, poems in memory of loved ones – and much more. It thus resonates with all the living, human and animate that I encounter, as well as the landscape and seascape we are blessed with in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Hand in hand with indigenous peoples, Maori, Aboriginal, Pacific, I’m trying to recover a sense of the sacred we have lost in our western science- and info-based culture.
From time to time we see things that bring us up short: a person or a picture that speaks to us.As I write this, half the Amazon Forest is on fire, deliberately lit.This should appal us; just as th ........
it’s in a storm. The wind is gale force; the rocks sharp and dangerous. How quickly things can change! On a calm day you can paddle about in a kayak. In a storm like this nobody puts to sea.One of m ........
This photo shows the approach of a storm in the Cook Strait. The sun is setting, the sea calm, the ferry untroubled on its way. The rainbow, however, marks a shower as the storm, right, approaches; ........
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