The mystery hill you can see from most parts of Auckland is, of course, Rangitoto island, the mid-harbour volcanic cone.
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The mystery hill you can see from most parts of Auckland is, of course, Rangitoto island, the mid-harbour volcanic cone.
Waiting to return, waiting and sailing in the longing shadows.
How do you measure it, love, by what length or breadth?
Dedicated to a friend who seems to stand on his own mountain and I on mine; we waive to each other at times and pick up each other's words on the wind or page.That shore, no matter how may oceans behind, i have never left.
Books, leaves and dreams that ignited me to burn in far journeying.
Afternoon tea and children, afternoon of the snail and Rupet Bear and an elephant with chequered trousers, the pagoda and the professor deep in the forest and nothing to do with this poem, but a little.

Thinking of my mother's Christmas table, absent as usual for many years from it, her men, her brothers who drove steam engines and served overseas, and her husband of the land.
Dedicated to the staff and residents of the Switzer Home, Kaitaia, Northland, New Zealand.
To my wife and her walk in a summer dress.
Staring at the wall until it was no longer there.
First snow like the entering of something that stops life in its tracks.
Waking on the supreme hour of silence coppery in brilliance.
Dedicated to those who choose to leave the known and the beaten tracks.
A rose in a bottle, a candle and a flickering wind.
The light and slow moving shadow on white village walls, the stillenss of an icon.
My father was born over 100 years ago. Remembering this, and many of the things he would tell us of his life, I wrote this piece. The Spectre of the Brocken is a documented atmospheric phenomenon, and you can easily find pictures of the effect searching on Google, for example.
With reference to the joker as he appears in the first card of the traditional Tarot pack.
Lemon tree very pretty.....