Three poems by Rev Mua Strickson-Pua

Monday, January 28, 2008

AOTEAROA SAMOAN CHINESE
By Rev Mua Strickson-Pua

Aotearoa
where I was born.
Samoan
Malaela and PapaSataua.
Chinese
from Canton China.

My Gafa
my whakapapa
my family lineage.

Who I am

POLYNESIAN PANTHERS By Rev Mua Strickson-Pua Urban Pacific history records your noble deeds young Pacific women and men working together standing up for our people repaying a generation here and those yet to come. A contribution of a struggle so fundamental to breathing for lifes existence to exhale releasing the passions of our people from time honoured traditions of serving others before ourselves but here now today. I acknowledge your contribution in the context of our migrant parents the challenging of racist monocultural New Zealand telling the stories of our families and communities forever battling the injustices of this nation. POLYNESIAN PANTHERS

SUI NOT SU’E By Rev Mua Strickson-Pua Sui is to represent. Su’e is to change. Whakaatu is to make representation. Whakarere ke is change. Represent representations is to change is change. Sui su’e whakaatu whakarere ke.

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