Poems on Nature


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Ait Burn and Worm's Turn

About the Chatham Islands where Sen lived in the late 1970's. Ait is a small island.
This poem was published in Feeding Harbour (1984) and printed in Arts Dialogue, March 1995.


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Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet

Mangere is an island of rocks visible from Chatham Island where Sen lived in the late 1970's. This poem was published in Feeding Harbour (1984) and printed in Arts Dialogue, March 1995.


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Cords

Inspired by the Chatham Islands where Sen lived in the late 1970's. This poem was published in Feeding Harbour (1984) and printed in Arts Dialogue, March 1995.


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The earth is not carnal

Written after giving a workshop on writing religious poetry for a Bible studies group.
It was printed in Arts Dialogue, June 1999.


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New Vessels

21 pages, without illustrations.     More about this poem (1987).


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Selentropy

Inspired by the Kaikoura coast where Sen lived in the late 1970's.
This poem was published in Feeding Harbour (1984) and printed in Arts Dialogue, March 1995.


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Ship-wreck (For Peter Smart)

Peter Smart was the editor of Caxton Press, a major publisher of New Zealand poetry and prose.
This poem was published in Feeding Harbour (1984) and printed in Arts Dialogue, March 1995.


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The Village of the Hidden Singing Birds

In 1982 he moved to live in the Hauraki Gulf on Pip, a small sailing boat he had built. Based around Waiheke Island, he divided his time between writing poetry, Bahá´í activities and carpentry jobs. This poem was published in Feeding Harbour (1984) and printed in Arts Dialogue, March 1995.


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Why in the Sun-tongued hills

This poem was included in Feeding Harbour (1984).
It is about the Bahai month of the fast, which in New Zealand is in the autumn.