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Are you putting together a panel for the AHA San Diego conference for 2010? I'm trying to put together a panel on Language and history, and am wondering if you could know of any Maori colleagues who I could contact regarding this subject.
I think I will probably want to give two papers at the conference. Any ideas about what you will be submitting? I would be keen to be on a panel with you if we could find a good subject!!!
Aloha,
Noe
It Tiana
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Lol
this is a poem for you because when you come to welly i want to take you to our island in the middle of our harbour for a writing retreat ok? - i wrote this the first time i went there to write -
a xx
Maori (writers) Battalion.
(for Therese and Maraea: because everyone has to write a tribute to the 28th)
funny how it’s called a writing retreat.
retreat:
to where?
from who?
from where?
why? for how long?
who said ‘go’?
who first bled?
who first drew blood?
who drew the lines of battle?
who holds the white flag, and who decided not to fly it?
who placed weapons in hands, shirts on backs, boots on feet?
what have we run out of,
that we need to retreat right now?
plans? fighters? courage? supplies? time?
who waved us off at the shore?
who misses us while we’re gone?
who folded clothes, helped pack bags, cooked treats?
who wonders if we’ll be remembered for bravery or mortality?
who is thinking about what we’re doing, and where, right now: at this very minute?
whose messages won’t be delivered?
which equipment have we had to leave behind?
what hard work do we turn our backs on as we turn our backs?
who lies buried under the soil we’re leaving: part of the ground over which our hunters will tread?
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so many questions about what’s risked
what’s left behind
what’s lost
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other questions:
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what if it’s not a retreat?
what if we’re not running away?
what if we’re not leaving the battleground but creating new ones?
what if this is part of the strategy?
what if this is our chance to ready/ aim/ fire?
what if this isn’t a retreat at all but the attack for which we’ve been so carefully and lovingly trained?
haha nope - photo taken on the mean streets of ongaonga (in the central hawkes bay) -
so good to hear from you girl - i've been useless at being in touch since i got back aye -
am sooo looking fwd to seeing you when you come here tho! when are you back in aotearoa? i'm coming to tamaki next week monday nite till tues nite (9th/10th) - u going to nepia's thingie too??
miss you beautiful
i'm going to put a poem in here for you okay - because you shared your lovely poem with us :)
a xx
Which one is yours??
^_^ Leinani
Wow!! Congrats!! I wish u the best of luck in that competition!! It would be awesome if your work got published... I fully understand. Sometimes I write to work out what I wanna say. ^_^ But yeah I know how it can be cool and scary at the same time..... Good luck!!
A Hui Hou!!
^_^ Leinani
Is that how you say hello in New Zealand?? And yep, it really was touching to read it. Do you write poetry as a hobby or professionally?? I, too love to write poetry. But I'm not as good as you. I'm still young, so I have much to learn about poetry.
A Hui Hou!!
^_^ Leinani
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