Woven Worlds

Thursday, July 20, 2006

(for Kate)

yesterday
i watched
your hands
weave a dream
across my memory
bringing order and texture
to that pile of voivoi
still there
filling the fale
that once was home


today
i watch
your hands
move across the page
across the canvas
across the room
releasing energy
arranging tapestries
symphonies of touch
and colour


each day
we come
together to weave
feelings experiences images
to sing the songs
of our mothers and grandmothers
long continuous lines connecting
east and west
north and south
and re-create
the world


from Songs of Love
new and selected poems (1974 – 1999)
Konai Helu Thaman
Mana Publications

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