Aroha Nz
this is my song,
my love song of you,
my land, my heart
love for green ferns
silver beneath
volcanic lakes so deep
taniwha never disturbed
tane mahuta
ancestral wisdom
sings his love
of freedom
of power listen O dwellers
for the great king's ways
this is my song,
my love song of you,
my land, my heart
mountains lifted to snow
lovingly protect greenstone below
rocks and grasses bear wind
centuries blown
tiers of bush
house birds of cheek
keas that wreck
anything loose
kiwi flightless night worm hunters
listen as little ruru calls
'morepork morepork'
love for the swamplands
full of raupo and pukeko
flaxes edge all
tall sentinels bearing
bearing beloved tui nectar
spears
this is my song
my love song of you
my land, my heart
love soars high
to black sand beaches
constant companions
to white thrashing surf
merging with stony clear
eel filled rivers
love surges forth to oceans of
silver muscled kawhai
delights for stomach and eye
birds of sky and sea
gather love to me
this is my song
my love song of you
my land my heart
N.Z. waiata - aroha (class)
maori poem song
23-8-18
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